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decayed in centre, and has lost several side boughs. "Wednesday," 7ft. 7in., 

 has lost its top. " Thursday" has the circumference of 7ft. llin., but bulges out 

 at the base to 18ft. Sin. "Friday" measures Gft llin. ; and "Saturday" only 

 6ft. 2in., a small, low tree, but with a large boss at its base, measuring no less 

 than 18ft. 2in. in circumference at a foot from the ground. 



The Evergreen Oak in the Kectory garden, at Ross, is a very fine tree. 

 At a foot from the ground, where it divides into two branches, it girths 

 10ft. 2in., and it rises to a height of about CO feet. 



The Crump Oak.— There is a farm of this name about four miles from 

 Kington, on the turnpike road to Hereford and it is fair to presume, therefore, 

 that there was formerly some extraordinary Oak there which gave the name. 

 No trace remains of such a tree now, but " the Crump Oak" of our time is a 

 solitary tree situated about a quarter of a mile nearer to Kington in an 

 arable field close to the turnpike road. It is a fine growing oak of the 

 variety Quercus intermedia, with a straight solid trunk rising some 20 feet 

 before it separates into its branches. It has a circumference of 14ft. 4in., 

 and a diametric foliage spread of 27 yards N. and S. and 29 yards E. and W. 

 It was estimated to contain 10 tons of timber some years since, and £80 was 

 then said to have been refused for it. It grows upon the estate of Major R. S. 

 Cos, of Broxwcod. 



BROXWOOD COURT 

 must be mentioned in passing, though the house is, as yet, but partly built, 

 and the grounds but recently laid out and planted (in the year 1859). The 

 broad avenue of Deodar Cedars stretching to the west will hereafter be the 

 grand feature of the grounds. Now they are 19 years old, supposing them to have 

 been 11 years old when planted, and they vary from 15ft. to 18ft. in height. They 

 are, for the most part, very graceful trees and feather so closely to the ground 

 as to defy all reasonable efforts to take their girth. There are also many fine 

 specimens of Conifers of the same age growing well and freely. The north 

 entrance is guarded on each side by a Sequoia Wellingtonia, planted in 1861. It 

 may be interesting hereafter to know that at one foot from the ground the tree on 

 the right side has a girth of 3ft. 9in. , and that of the left of 3ft. 2in. , whilst 

 their heights are about 19ft. and 18ft. respectively. 



MOOR COURT. 



A broad avenue of Elm trees, somewhat more than half a mile in length, 

 forms the handsome approach to Moor Court from the Leominster and Kington 

 road. The house, as its name implies, is built completely in the valley, and is 



