252 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
One in vigorous growth at Dalziel is 12 feet 6 inches at 5 feet 3 
inches. 
A Rowan at Edinbarnet, the estate of Walter Mackenzie, Esq., 
is worthy of note, girthing 11 feet 4 inches at 2 feet 6 inches. It 
divides at 3 feet, and the larger stem is 6 feet 2 inches at 1 foot 
above the division. 
The largest Sycamore (Acer pseudo-platanus, L.) seen at a 
Society excursion recently was at Erskine, the estate of Lord 
Blantyre. It measured 15 feet 34 inches at 6 feet, 15 feet 4 
inches at 7 feet 10 inches, with a splendid bole. It is a really 
fine tree, in good condition, and the noble proprietor may well be 
proud of it. Near the west lodge of Erskine is a tree with the 
greater girth of 19 feet at 2 feet 3 inches, but with a much 
shorter bole. It widens upwards, and divides at 7 feet into four 
stems. A mile farther west, at Bishopton Old House, is a 
Sycamore, under the shade of which John Knox is said to have 
preached. It had, in 1887, a girth of 15 feet 5 inches at 5 feet, 
and a spread of 83 feet. It is figured by Strutt in Sylva 
Britannica, 1830, but the circumference given by him of 20 feet 
at the ground is evidently an exaggeration. At Loganswraes, 
near Barrhead, is another splendid and tall tree (Plate IIL), 
girthing 18 feet 1} inches at 3 feet 6 inches, the narrowest part 
of a short bole of 5 feet. In 1841 it measured 15 feet 3 inches. 
All these trees are in Renfrewshire, which is thus probably 
excelled by few counties in Scotland for Sycamores, 
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