THE REMARKABLE TREES 



OF 



HEREFORDSHIRE. 



THE HOLME LACY ELM. 



(Ulmiis campestris. ) 

 APRIL, 1869. 



This fine old tree is situated in tlie Park at Holme Lacy (Sir E. F. 

 Studamore Stanhope, Bart.) It is hollow throughout, and all its large lower 

 limbs, and many others up the tree, are bi-okeu ofi'. It keeps its full height 

 nevertheless, and has still many luxuriant boughs. It mea.sures 27ft. in 

 circumference at 5ft. from the gi-ound, where the card of the Club is placed 

 (this in size, is 1ft. by 6in.), and its exact height is 104 feet by Mr. Wells's' 

 cUnometer. 



Loid/nwrc wnd Son, PJiotographcrs to the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, 



