ON BRITISH OAKS. 53 
the chapel at Lawers, near Comrie, Perthshire. No. 1 girths 
20 feet 8 inches at 1 foot up, and 13 feet 5 inches at 5 feet up. 
No, 2 girths 20 feet 7 inches at 1 foot up, and 12 feet 6 inches at 
5 feet up. 
The ‘‘ Ochtertyre Oaks,” at Ochtertyre, near Crieff, Perthshire, 
‘« By Ochtertyre there grows the aik.” 
In a group by the margin of the loch is an oak girthing IS feet 
1 inch at 1 foot, 16 feet 2 inches at 5 feet up, with a length of 
bole of 12 feet. 
“« Hppie Callum’s Oak” stands at the corner of the road leading 
to Messrs Morgan’s saw-mills at Crieff. It is said to have been 
raised in a tea-pot by ‘‘ Eppie,” and then planted out. It has a 
girth of 16 feet at 3 feet up, and is a grand tree. 
The ‘‘Pepperwell Oak” grows near Methven Castle, Perth- 
shire, so called from being near a well of that name. It girths 
23 feet at 1 foot up, 19 feet 6 inches at 5 feet up, a height of 
80 feet, and spreads its branches 90 feet. 
**Malloch’s Oak” is on the Strathallan Castle estate, near 
Auchterarder, Perthshire, and is supposed to be a remnant of the 
ancient forest which once covered this part of the country. It is 
supposed to be about six hundred years old, and served as a 
gallows for a man who was hanged by the rebels in 1745. It 
has a girth of about 16 feet. 
“James VIth Oak,” situate at Scone, near Perth, is a fine 
specimen, said to have been planted by “ King Jamie.” It girths 
15 feet at 1 foot up, 13 feet 3 inches at 5 feet, and a height 
of 55 feet. 
At Seggieden, a few miles below Perth, in the Carse of Gowrie, 
there is an oak which girths 16 feet at 1 foot up, 13 feet at 3 feet, 
12 feet 1 inch at 5 feet, 11 feet 6 inches at 20 feet, and 11 feet 
8 inches at 22 feet ; with a clean straight bole of 28 feet, a total 
height of 70 feet, and spreads its branches 90 feet. 
“ Birnam Oak” grows near to Birnam, Perthshire, and close 
to the river Tay. ‘This tree is popularly believed to be one of the 
remains of ‘ Birnam Wood” of Shakespeare’s “ Macbeth.” It 
girths 23 feet at 3 feet up, 19 feet 7 inches at the narrowest part 
of the bole, has a total height of 50 feet, and spreads its branches 
40 feet. 
An oak at Dunkeld, Perthshire, near what is considered to be 
the first larches introduced into Scotland, has a girth of 12 feet 
