ON BRITISH OAKS, dD 
of Scotland extends to about 160 acres. The “King” has a 
circumference of 18 feet 2 inches at 2 feet up, 15 feet 3 inches at 
5 feet up, a length of bole of 20 feet, and a total height of 90 feet. 
An oak at Penicuik, Sir Geo. D. Clerk’s, Bart., seat in Mid- 
lothian, has a circumference of 12 feet 8 inches at 1 foot up, and 
10 feet 3 inches at 5 feet up. 
The ‘‘ Yester Oaks,” Haddingtonshire. No. 1 is in the grounds 
at the garden, and had a circumference in 1854 of 13 feet 10 inches 
at 3 feet up; in 1880, 14 feet 10 inches—an increase in twenty- 
six years of 12 inches. No. 2, on the left side of walk from 
Yester Honse to the garden, had a circumference in 1854 of 13 feet 
6 inches at 3 feet up; in 1880, 15 feet 6 inches—increase in 
twenty-six years, 24 inches. 
The “Capon Tree” stands a few yards off the road in the level 
haugh near to the low bank of Jed water, on the Ferniehirst estate 
of the Marquis of Lothian, in Roxburghshire. There are differ- 
ences of opinion as to how the name “‘ Capon” came to be applied 
to the tree, but the theory that seems to find most acceptanee is, 
that it was the ‘meeting tree” where the tenants assembled to 
pay their rents in kind. Although considerably damaged by the 
snowstorm of December 1872, it still presents an appearance of 
imposing grandeur. It has three gigantic limbs remaining, and 
girths 26 feet 6 inches at 3 feet up, 24 feet 3 inches at 5 feet up, 
and covers an area of from 80 feet to 90 feet. 
“Old Capon tree, old Capon tree, 
Thou standest telling of the past. 
Of Jedworth’s forest wild, and free, 
Thou art alone, forsaken, last.” 
The “ King of the Wood” grows at the top of a ravine about a 
bow-shot distant from the last, on the opposite side of the road, 
and although not possessing the rugged strength of its rival, it has 
yet a noble appearance, and is said to be another remnant of the 
great forest of Jedwood, so that the ‘“‘Capon Tree” is not, as the 
poet sings, ‘‘alone, forsaken, last.” It girths 16 feet 6 inches at 
5 feet up, and is 78 feet in height. 
The “ Hartrigge Oaks,” near Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, the 
seat of Lord Stratheden and Campbell. Nos. 1 and 2 are by the 
side of the mansion-house park, girthing 13 feet 10 inches and 
11 feet 9 inches respectively at 5 feet up. No. 3 is near the north- 
east corner of the garden, and girths over 15 feet at 5 feet up. 
