42 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
14 acres in a document of the year 1625, which had been fenced 
with pales into the Great Park, and sown with acorns in 1580. 
These trees, at the present time, are of a singularly uniform 
character, and perfectly healthy. This is supposed to be the 
earliest authenticated record of any regular plantation known to 
have been made in England. They number about twenty-one to 
the acre, and their average content is about 88 feet. In addition 
to this, it would be desirable to have more details as to the size 
of individual trees, as this would be a contribution towards solving 
the question of ‘raising forests from seed.” 
The ‘* New Forest” in Hampshire, although of large extent, has 
few oak trees of interest. They do not grow so high or so large 
as in many other parts of England, but they are more picturesque 
in their outlines, appearing in the distance as if suspended in the 
air rather than growing out of the earth. 
The “ Western Oak” at Boldrewood has a circumference of 
24 feet 9 inches. 
The ‘‘ Eastern Oak,” at the same place, has a circumference of 
16 feet. 
The “ Northern Oak,” also at Boldrewood, has-a circumference 
at the thickest part of 20 feet 4 inches; lower down it is only 
14 feet 8 inches. 
The “ Knyghtwood Oak” has a circumference of 17 feet 4 inches. 
The “ Moyle’s Court Oak” is a handsome tree, standing a few 
yards outside the “ Forest” boundary. It has a circumference of 
18 feet 84 inches. 
The ‘Cadnam Oak” is remarkable in that it puts forth young 
leaves on Old Christmas morning, which fact seems to be well 
attested. A description of this tree appeared in Woods and Forests, 
February 1885, the writer of which, after a graphic account of his 
visit to it on Old Christmas morning in that year, says, ‘‘ perhaps 
some of your correspondents may know of such in other parts of 
England ;” but to this there was no response, so it may be 
presumed that this oak is unique. It stands some 10 yards to 
the north of the Southampton Road, where that to Ringwood 
crosses it, by the fence of Widow Gain’s garden, and has a circum- 
ference of 10 feet 6 inches at 4} feet up, a bole of 17 feet, and a 
height of 55 feet. It is apparently a young tree, although a good 
part of the south side of the whole length of the trunk is gone, 
which is, however, being fast covered over by the growth of the 
tree, although it is still from 1 foot to 18 inches broad. 
