THE KEMAEKABLE TREES 



OF 



HEREFO RDS HIRE. 



^':^St^% 





"EVE" AT MOEETON STATION, 1870. 



(Quercus pedunculata.) 



"Adam" and "Eve" were the names given to two massive Oak trees 

 which stood in the Lugg meadows, near Moreton, Herefordshire. "Adam" 

 was blown down about 35 years ago, and by the same storm ' ' Eve " lost its 

 top and remaining branches . When the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway 

 was made, "Eve' was included in the line, and the hollow bole was at once 

 appropriated as a residence by an economical navvy . For many months 

 after the line was opened for public trafl&c, it actually formed the residence 

 and office of the Station Master, all complete in itself. It then became the 

 lamp room, and was used for this purpose for about 14 years, until 1869, 

 since which time it has been converted into a stable for a donkey. The bole 

 was alive in 1868, when it put forth a few green twigs on the south side. 

 It is now quite dead, but in its dried state it still measures 25 feet 8 inches 

 in circumference. "Eve's" spacious cavity has long been well known ; 21 

 full grown sheep have been counted as they came out from it ; a party of 13 

 are said to have drank tea within it, and from reliable accounts it has been 

 the scene occasionally of much picnickian iun. (See Tratisactions for 1870, 

 v. 289.; 



