OLD AND REMARKABLE TREES IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 87 
high, girths 19 feet } inch at 3 feet up, and contains 594 cubic feet 
of timber. 
12. Cepar or Lepanon (Cedrus Libani). 
This is a beautiful vigorous-growing tree, standing in a hollow in 
the orchard, below the kitchen garden. It is nicely sheltered on all 
sides, and has a fine bole 32 feet high, as straight as an arrow, and 
up to 28 feet it has not a branch on it. This promises to make a 
tree of large dimensions. It girths at 3 feet from the ground 
16 feet 11 inches, and contains 345 cubic feet of timber. 
13. OaK, ENGLISH (Quercus pedunculata). 
In the deer park, on a bank sloping to the south, on the west 
side of the mansion and near to the church path, grows this 
remarkable ornamental park tree, just the type of what an old oak 
should be. It has a very massive bole, 23 feet 6 inches in girth, 
where it divides into two ponderous stems. ‘Fhese again separate, 
one at 8 feet and the other at 9 feet, and then ramify into a number 
of smaller ones, giving a top 91 feet in diameter. Its trunk girths 
21 feet 3 inches at 3 feet from the base; and the tree altogether 
contains the very large total of 1016 cubic feet of timber. 
Near this tree stands a stone with the following inscription :— 
This Wood was planted 
By Sir William Spencer, Knight of the Bath, 
in the Year of our Lord 
1624, 
**Up & be doing and God will prosper.” 
14. Oak, ENGLISH (Quercus pedunculata). 
This beautiful young oak is growing in the heronry at the top end 
of Sir John’s Wood, in the extreme north of the Deer Park. It 
has a fine, straight, clear bole, 64 feet in length, and a vigorous- 
growing top, the whole rising to a height of 98 feet. This will 
doubtless make a very large tree, as it is adding to its girth at a 
rapid rate. At 3 feet from the base its girth is 12 feet 10 inches, 
and it contains 469 cubic feet of timber. 
A stone in the centre of the wood, and 100 yards from this tree, 
reads— 
