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6 inches at 5 feet up, a fine bole of 30 feet, and a total height of 
about 100 feet. 
The “ King’s Park Oak,” at Dunkeld, on the Athole property, 
has a circumference of 15 feet 8} inches at 3 feet up, 15 feet 
2 inches at 4 feet, the narrowest part of the bole. It has a fine 
bole 12 feet in length, which branches into five huge limbs the 
size of ordinary trees. The spread of branches is 99 feet. 
The ‘‘Murthly Castle Oaks,” Perthshire. No. 1 has a girth 
of 18 feet at 5 feet up. No. 2 has a girth of 10 feet 4 inches at 
5 feet up. 
The “Taymouth Oaks” grow at Taymouth Castle, Perthshire, 
and were planted in 1842 by Her Majesty the Queen and Prince 
Albert. They were measured in 1884—one had a girth of 4 feet 
9 inches at 3 feet up, and a height of 45 feet. 
An oak close to the public road between Weem and Fortingal 
in Perthshire has a girth of 15 feet at 1 foot up, and 12 feet 
6 inches at 5 feet. 
The “Dalgety Oak” grows in Dalgety parish, Fifeshire, on 
the north shore of the Firth of Forth. It has a girth of 13 feet 
10 inches at 1 foot up, 11 feet at 5 feet up, a length of bole of 
48 feet, and a total height of 90 feet. ; 
An oak at Hillhouse of Luss, on the shore of Loch Lomond, 
Dumbartonshire, girths 12 feet 10 inches at 5 feet up, and has a 
bole 20 feet in length. 
The “ Inchmurrin Oaks” grow on that island in Loch Lomond. 
They were measured by Sir Thos. Dick Lauder in 1784, but since 
which time there does not appear to be any record of them. 
No. 1 stands in the middle of the island, and measured at the 
above date 18 feet 1 inch in circumference. Its head was 
remarkable for its great leafy expanse. No. 2 girths 20 feet 
8 inches at 3 feet up. No. 3 girths 28 feet 5 inches, also at 
3 feet up. 
The ‘ Blairquhoish Oak,” Strathblane, Stirlingshire, has a girth 
of 15 feet at 4 feet up, and a spread of 30 yards. 
An oak at Hopetoun, Linlithgowshire, had a circumference of 
10 feet in 1855, which had increased to 11 feet 9 inches in 1880, 
or 21 inches in twenty-five years. The total height was 106 feet 
in 1855, and 110 feet in 1880, being an increase of 4 feet. 
The ‘‘ King of the Forest” grows on the top of a high steep 
bank overhanging the North Esk river in the old Caledonian 
Forest at Dalkeith, Midlothian. This remnant of the old forests 
