88 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
This Wood was planted 
By Sir John Spencer, Knight, 
Father of Robert Lord Spencer 
in the Year of our Lord 
1589. 
Standing in the old heronry adjoining this wood, and near the 
Hawking Tower in Althorp Park, a stone bears the following 
inscription :— 
This Wood was planted 
By Sir John Spencer 
Grandfather of Robert Lord Spencer 
in the Year of our Lord 
1567-1568. 
15, Lime (Tilia Europea). 
A remarkably fine specimen of a park tree, growing on a bank 
sloping to the north, and 270 yards south of the east entrance to 
Althorp Park. This is the upper tree of three limes growing 
in a line at 16 yards apart on rather shallow soil, a quarry, 
25 yards from the trunk of the tree, showing the stone to be close 
to the surface of the ground. A finer specimen of a park tree than 
this is it would be hard to find. Ata height of 10 feet 6 inches it 
divides into six large limbs, spreading out and giving it a diameter 
of top of 90 feet 6 inches, the lower branches sweeping all round 
close to the ground. It girths 17 feet 7 inches at 3 feet from the 
ground, and has a total of 575 cubic feet of timber. 
In the Ice-House Plantation near to this tree there is a stone 
bearing the following inscription :— 
Planted by George John, Earl Spencer, K.G., 
in the Year M.D.CCXCVIII. 
**Seris Factura Nepotibus Umbram.” 
16. Asu (Fraxinus excelsior). 
This remarkably grand tree is growing on the south side of the 
mansion, and close to the boundary wall dividing Althorp and 
Harleston Parks. This gigantic specimen of an ash has a bole 
36 feet high, with some immense limbs spreading out on all sides, 
and gives a diameter of top of 92 feet. The trunk girths 17 feet 
6 inches at 3 feet up; and the tree altogether contains 809 cubic 
feet of timber, 
