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interesting for a very different reason. It affords evidence of a considerable 

 change in the course of the Wye. Common tradition certainly, and, it is said, 

 an old map of the time of Queen Elizabeth represents the tree as standing on 

 the bank of the river. It now stands in the middle of the meadow, around two 

 Bides of which the river runs at a distance of from 200 to 300 yards from the tree. 

 The successive additions of land to the meadow may be clearly traced out on 

 its surface ; but they are perhaps most distinctly to be seen when there is a 

 little snow on the ground, which has drifted from the north or east. 



There is a fine Elm at Pengethley— the small-leaved English Elm. It 

 has a girth of 15 feet 7 inches, and a spread of 60 feet of foliage. The tree leans 

 considerably, and has been lightened by the removal of several branches. At 

 Court farm, Foy, is a very remarkable elm with a circumference of 20 feet 5 

 inches. At Wilton, in Bridstow parish, there is a fine group of seven trees^ 

 with a girth as measured by Wyndham Smith, Esq., of 13.2, — 12.2, — 14.4, — 13.8, 

 — 12.7, 14 feet, and 14 feet respectively. 



There is a Wi/ch Elm at Pengethley— a sound, healthy tree— 17 feet 3 

 inches in circvtmference, dividing at once into many fine upright branches, as 

 if it had been "stoggled" at some early period of its existence; and Col. 

 Symonds also notices the fine tree at Lyston, the property of the Kev. D. 

 Capper, which measures 16.10 in girth, and whose branches spread out horizon- 

 tally to a diameter width of nearly 100 feet. 



A Lime tree at Pengethley measures 14.5 in girth with a N. and S. 

 diameter spread of 75 feet of foliage. Another at Whitchurch measures 14.7 in 

 circumference. A group of Lime trees at Lyston (The Rev. D. Capper) cannot 

 fail to catch the eye and admiration of every lover of trees who passes along the 

 old Hereford and Monmouth road. There are four trees standing on a fine knoll 

 near the house and above the road. They stand about 21 feet apart, and are not 

 individually of great size (10 feet 10 inches, 9, 10.9, and 10.8 respectively), but 

 they form together a beautiful group, with a diameter spread of foliage of 100 feet 

 North and South, and 91 East and West. The trees are in full luxuriance, and 

 though the misletoe is very fond of a Lime tree settlement, not a particle was to 

 be seen upon them untU 1866, when a small spray appeared on the Western side. 



The largest Beech trees a,t Pengthley measure 12.8 and 9.7 in girth— and 

 a couple on the banks of the Wye at Whitchurch measure 14 feet 7 inches 

 and 12.7 respectively. 



An Ash at Pengethly, sound and healthy, measuresl4 feet 5 inches in 

 circumference. This tree divides at 20 feet from the ground into three branches 

 which carry up their size to a great height. 



At Craddock there is rather a remarkable row of Sycamore trees — some 20 

 in number. They are tall trees, and the two measured showed a girth of 10 feet 

 4 inches and 9.3. They stand on a very exposed bank and show well the 

 characteristic obstinacy of this tree in never having yielded an inch to th« 

 violent gales to which they have been exposed. 



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