44 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The “ Crad Oak” is a fine specimen of Quercus r. sessiliflora, in 
flourishing condition. It stands back in the woods behind “ Jack.” 
That is all the information we have respecting this “fine speci- 
men,” but it is certainly desirable that something should be 
known of its dimensions, as so few trees of this species of oak are 
recorded. 
The ‘“‘ Newland Oak” stands outside the present Dean Forest, 
but within the ancient forest bounds, and is a large old tree, 
measuring 41 feet round the trunk, and being probably one of the 
oldest and largest oaks in the kingdom. Another account says, 
*Tts trunk is not buttressed at the base, and the girth of 52 feet 
at the ground is scarcely lessened up to 12 feet, where five grand 
primary branches spread out from the hollow bole, divaricating 
into more than fifteen. 
The ‘‘Colwall Oaks.” In the parish of Colwall, near the old 
hunting-seat of the bishops of Hereford, is a good-sized fish-pool, 
and near this pool, in the middle of a pasture, stand these trees, 
supposed to be the two oldest oaks anywhere about the Malvern 
Hills, showing undoubted evidences of very great antiquity. The 
largest has been much shattered and lost some of its finest 
branches, so that at a distance it has a lank and attenuated look. 
The extreme base of the trunk bulges out considerably, and is 
more than 60 feet in circumference; but this diminishes so 
quickly that at a yard from the ground it girths only 27 feet. 
The companion oak to the great one, and almost as old, girths 
45 feet round the swollen base. 
The “Old Pollard Oak.” In the southern part of Malvern 
Chace, in a field near the Severn, stands this tree, putting out 
horizontal arms in a very curious manner. It is a characteristic 
specimen of what is called a “burr oak,” of which many may be 
seen in the neighbourhood, the result of pollarding from time to 
time. The circumference at 3 feet up is 17 feet. 
The “Devil’s Oak.” This tree has assumed a demoniacal shape, 
the result also of pollarding, and presents a most grotesque 
appearance. It is said, however, that the appellation was really 
given to it from some sweeps having been seen to emerge in the 
mist of an autumnal morning from its cavity, where they had 
been sheltering, and as they disappeared in the fog, were very 
like imps of the evil one. The name, at all events, is likely to 
stick to the deformed tree. It stands in a hedge by the side of 
the road leading to Sherrard’s Green, below Great Malvern. 
