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bears a grand head; it is 69ft. high; and the extent of its boughs, from east to west, is 114 ft.” 
(Lauder’s Gilpin, ii. p.256.) There are several fine oaks in the park of Karl Stanhope at Chevening, 
near Seven Oaks. One of these is 14 ft. 6 in. in girt at 3 ft. from the ground; and the diameter of the 
head is 84ft. From a leaf of this tree sent us by Earl Stanhope, it would appear to be Q. sessilifidra ; 
but of this we are not certain. In Somersetshire, at Brockley Hall, it is 80 ft. high, with a trunk 
above 36 ft. in circumference; at Nettlecombe, 220 years old, it is 100 ft. high, the diameter of the 
head 50 ft., and circumference of the trunk 20ft. In Surrey, at Claremont, it is 76ft. high, the 
diameter of the head 80ft., and girt of the trunk 13ft. Gin. In Sussex, at Cowdray, it is 60 ft. high, 
the diameter of the head 103ft., and girt of the trunk 16 ft. 6in.; at Kidbrooke, 100 years old, it is 
60 ft. high, the diameter of the head 88ft., and girt of the trunk 2ift. The Rookery Oak, at 
Kidbrooke, the seat of Lord Colchester, is 90 ft. high ; the circumference of the trunk, at 1 ft. from 
the ground, is 18 ft., and the diameter of the head 70 ft.: the species is Q, pedunculata. The Sussex 
Farm Yard Oak, on the same estate (Q. sessilifléra), is 70ft. high, with a trunk 21 ft. in circum- 
ference, and a head 90ft. in diameter. In Horsfield’s History, &c. of Sussex, Append. II., Botany, 
by T. H. Cooper, Esq., F.L.S., p. 6., published 1835, is an account of “a very fine oak,’ perhaps the 
finest in the county, which grows in the pleasure-grounds of Sheffield Park, ‘he but or bole, in 
height 22 ft., measures 15 ft. 5 in. in circumference ; and, as the tree is in a most thriving state, it will 
attain a much larger size. The amount of timber now contained in the tree is more than 11 loads. 
The oak in the kitchen-garden is also a beautiful tree, although not so large as the other: it measures 
