ON BRITISH OAKS. 39 
there having been once a gate between them. They stand nearly 
at the north extremity of the park, not far from the south lodge 
of Worksop Manor, and the drive passes between them. They 
measure as follows :—circumference at the bottom, 38 feet; at 
3 feet up, 27 feet ; and at 6 feet up, 23 feet ; sheer height, 98 feet 
6 inches. The other has a circumference at the bottom of 34 feet; 
at 3 feet up, 23 feet; and at 6 feet up, 20 feet; sheer height, 
88 feet. These oaks are Quercus robur sessiliflora.+ 
The “Seven Sisters” so called from having consisted originally 
of seven stems springing from one common root, is one of 
the most remarkable trees anywhere in existence. Some of the 
“sister” stems have, from time to time, been blown down, but 
it is still a noble tree. It is situated about half a mile from the 
“Two Porters.” The circumference of the common trunk, close 
to the ground, is over 30 feet, and the height 88 feet. The 
measurements of the ‘‘Seven Sisters” were given nearly a century 
ago, as follows :—in height it is 88 feet 7 inches; the circum- 
ference at the bottom is 30 feet; at two yards, taking in the stems, 
30 feet 4 inches. The largest stem at two yards is 12 feet 10 
inches in circumference ; another at the same distance from its 
bottom is 11 feet 7 inches; one, 9 feet 10 inches; and the 
smallest, 5 feet 3 inches in circumference.? 
The ‘Queen Oak,” now called the “ Major Oak,” so named, 
it is said, after Major Hayman Rooke, who often visited it, and 
wrote much on the forest; it was also called the ‘ Cock-pen 
Tree,” from its hollow interior being occupied as a hen-roost. 
The hollow is nearly 7 feet in diameter and 15 feet high. A 
considerable portion of its tendons appear above ground, and 
measuring these about halfway between their junction with the 
trunk and their insertion in the earth, they gave a circumference 
of nearly 30 yards; the circumference of the trunk at nearly 
6 feet from the ground, the height at which begin the branches, 
1 On the occasion of the Society’s visit in 1889, the ‘‘ Two Porters” were 
measured, and the dimensions are given in the Report of the Excursion as 
follows:—No. 1 girths at base 36 feet 8 inches, and at 5 feet up 25 feet 
8 inches; and is about 24 feet high, having been broken off by a storm in 
1881. No. 2 girths at base 36 feet, and at 5 feet up 23 feet 2 inches; and 
stands about 60 feet high.—Ep. 
2 The last of the ‘‘Seven Sisters’ was blown down about a year previous 
to the Society’s visit on the 7th August 1889, so that this famous tree is 
now a thing of the past.—Ep. 
