152 The Forest Trees of Wiltshire. 
ago there were twelve in a nearly perfect state ;—the measurement 
of one of them has been thus recorded :—“ height 140 feet, and 
circumference 17 feet.” How far from the ground this measure- 
ment was taken is not said; but as all of them have clean trunks, 
free from swellings, whether it was at two or three feet, or four or 
five feet is not very important. In another part of the park, the 
writer saw a silver fir seemingly a younger tree, sound, perfect, 
and. still growing, which measures a hundred and thirty feet in 
height, fifteen feet in circumference at three feet from the ground, 
and contains five hundred cubic feet of timber. In the gardens at 
Tottenham, too, there is a noble silver fir. It is more thana 
hundred feet high, and at four feet from the ground it is sixteen 
feet in circumference. It is perfectly sound, and growing, and quite 
straight up to the top. It is clear of branches to a height of about 
twenty feet, above which it is uniformly feathered with branches, 
the lower ones drooping to within a few feet of the ground: their 
extreme spread may be from one hundred and eighty to two 
hundred feet in circumference. At Roundway Park there is a fine 
Silver Fir, one hundred and eight feet high, and twelve feet in 
circumference at three feet from the ground ; and there is, as well, 
a remarkably fine old Scorcu Frr. Others, have been mentioned 
as fair specimens ; but this, at Roundway, is greatly superior in size, 
as well as in age. It has been much injured by storms, having 
nothing that deserves to be called a “head” remaining. It has a 
short trunk which, as it stands on the edge of a sort of ridge or 
bank, is two or three feet longer on one side than on the other. 
It is about ten feet in length, and has three great main limbs 
springing from the trunk at different heights, at about six, nine, 
and twelve feet from the ground. Of these main limbs three are 
divided into secondary, but still large limbs; while the other three 
are single and smaller ones, though all six are very large. Measur- 
ing the bole at one foot from the ground on the higher side, and 
at three feet on the lower it is sixteen feet in circumference. The 
limbs are mostly broken off short at twenty or thirty feet from the 
ground, the upper part of the tree presenting the picture of a fine 
old wreck. The tree itself is, however, perfectly sound, and is a 
