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The Swanstox Court "Weeping Ash.— This very handsome tree grows 

 near the house as Swanston Court, in the parish of Dilwyn. It is a tall tree with 

 wide-spreading branches. It hangs gracefully over the pool 



" And dips 

 Its pendant boughs stooping as if to drink." 



One or two large branches have been broken off, but it is yet a symmetrical 

 luxuriant tree. The circumference of the bole is 15ft. oin. at 5ft. from the 

 ground. It is hollow in the centre, and was accidentally set on fire a few years 

 since in the attempt to smoke out a colony of bees that had taken possession of 

 it. Mr. Evans and his men, with the aid of the water beneath it, were fortu- 

 nately enabled to save the tree. 



The Holm Lacey Welxingtonia.— The Sequoia WeUingtonia in Holm 

 Lacey Park is the finest tree in the county, and since its age is so well known 

 and its growth has been so carefully watched, it is well to put it on record. It was 

 planted in November, 1855, when it was 8 inches high. In 1866 it was 18 feet 

 high ; at 1 foot from the ground the circumference of the bole was 3ft. lin., and 

 at 5 feet, 1ft. Sin. At the present time, 1871, the tree is 16 years old, and 27 feet 

 high. It girths at 1 foot from the ground 5ft. 3in., and at 5 feet from the 

 ground it is 3ft. 6in. in circumference. Its rate of growth, therefore, is about 

 lit. 9in. a-year. 



The Newbury Oak. —At Newbury, in the parish of Grendon Bishop are 

 the remains of a very magnificent Oak (P. pedunculated). It is but the charred 

 shell of a tree, yet it still lives, and enough remains of it to show its former 

 grandeur. A fire was lighted some few years since to drive out a swarm of 

 bees and thus the tree itself was burnt to its present state. One third of the 

 bole has been destroyed, the remaining two-thirds measure 22ft. lin., and since 

 it is still very upright and free from excrescence, when perfect, its circumference 

 could not have been less than 31ft. or 32ft. in fair measurement. 



MOCCAS PARK. 



" Hail ! stately Oaks, whose wrinkled trunks hath stood, 

 Age after age, the sovereigns of the wood." 



The discovery of a new Mistletoe-Oak by the Rev. Sir George H. Cornewall, 

 Bart. , on the Moccas Estate, had an irresistible claim on the immediate atten- 

 tion of your Commissioner. " Ever prompt where duty calls," he rushed from 

 inditing " Notes" of single trees, scattered here and there in the county, to find 

 himself surrounded by an embarras de richesses in a single locality. To give the 



