THE OAK. 95 
feet in circumference inside. The tree is 33 feet 3 
inches high, and 47 feet in circumference on the out- 
side near the ground. This fine ruin is still standing, 
and, though it has latterly become much wasted, it 
annually produces a crop of leaves and acorns.” 
The Chandos Oak. 
«The ‘Chandos Oak’ stands in the pleasure- 
z ounds of Michendon House, near Southgate, and 
is about 60 feet high. The head covers a space, the 
diameter of which measures 118 feet. The girth of 
the trunk, at one foot from the ground, is 18 feet 3 
inches. It has no large limbs; but, when in full 
foliage, its boughs bending to the earth, with almost 
artificial regularity of form, and equi-distant from 
each other, give it the appearance of a gigantic tent. 
It forms, indeed, a magnificent living canopy, imper- 
vious to the day.” 
“The ‘Boddington Oak’ grew in a piece of rich 
erass-land, called the Old Orchard Ground, belonging 
