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with a girth of 11 ft. 11 in., and a bole of 48 ft. ; soil, alluvial in 
the valley of the Test. 
Two trees by ‘‘ Fiddle Pond,” North Stoneham Park, near South- 
ampton, girth 11 ft. 11 in. and 11 ft. 103 in. respectively ; soil, 
clay, on the Bracklesham beds. 
Opposite Sheppard’s School, Amport, near Andover, is one 
girthing 11 ft. 7 in. Soil, alluvial, on the chalk, 
All the above approach remarkably near in circumference. 
THE TREMBLING PopLaR (Populus tremula). 
This variety is plentiful in the valleys of the rivers and streamlets, 
but does not attain a large girth. The largest which I have mea- 
sured is in a meadow between the road from Andover to Amport 
and the Pile Hill rivulet. It has a circumference of 9 ft. 35 in. 
Soil, alluvial, on the chalk. 
The WriLtows occupied a large space within the last forty years 
as osier beds, but now they are almost extinct, the cause being no 
doubt the same as led to the decrease of the coppice land, namely, 
to increase the pasture land. 
The only varieties that approach timber size are the white (Salix 
alba) and the Bedford (S. Russelliana). The wood is in demand 
for cricket bats. Price, ls. 6d. per foot. 
THe WHITE WILLOW. 
In the school meadow at East Tytherley, in January 1879, I 
measured a fine white willow, which had a circumference of 15 ft. 
9 in.; and I then noted “that it was covered with mistletoe, 
spreading its boughs like an oak, but is showing symptoms of 
decay, the boughs dying and bare, with a large limb blown off. 
Something has shattered this venerable tree, and I am afraid that 
it will soon be numbered amongst the trees that were.” And so 
it has turned out; the great gale of October 1881 levelled it with 
the ground. It grew in a deep clay loam, on the chalk. 
In the water meadows to the west of Mottisfont railway station 
stands two fine specimens. The largest had a circumference in 
1879 of 11 ft. 6 in., and in 1883 of 12 ft. 8in. This would show 
a rate of growth of 34 in. per annum. Soil, alluvial, on the chalk. 
The next largest in circumference is near the Pile Hill rivulet, 
east of Cholderton farm, four miles from Andover. It measures 
