542 STATE AND PROSPECTS OF ARBORICULTURE IN HAMPSHIRE. 
age or not is uncertain. One has a straight bole of 100 ft., and 
a circumference of 10 ft. 44 in. This one is of an unusual habit 
of growth, being more like a silver fir. There is also a remark- 
ably fine one in “ Pedestal bottom,” which girths 15 ft. 7 in. 
Besides these there are many others of all ages and sizes in the 
park and pleasure grounds, mostly planted by the late Lord Palmer- 
ston, who for the long period of sixty-three years owned the estate, 
and was an enthusiastic arboriculturist. 
At Southend House, Hursley, which was occupied by a nursery- 
man of the name of Mr Savage Beare, there is a clump of four cedars 
close by the main road to Romsey and Southampton, opposite the 
school, girthing 9 ft. 7 in., 11 ft. 85 in., 9 ft. 2 in., and 7 ft. 104 
in. respectively. Although much smaller than those at Broad- 
lands, they were planted the same year (1770), and it is exceed- 
ingly probable that Mr Beare, as a nurseryman, supplied the 
plants to Broadlands ; his tomb is in Romsey Abbey churchyard ; 
soil, white earth, on the chalk, 
I have to record another of which I have the date of planting. 
It is at Jenkyn’s Place farm, between Alton and Farnham ; it 
was planted in 1823, and has a girth of 10 ft. 1 in., being nearly 
equal to the largest one at Hursley, although they are nearly 
double the age ; soil, vegetable mould, on the Upper Greensand. 
THe Lasurnum (Cytissus Laburnum). 
A native of the Alps, this is plentiful as an ornamental tree, 
but rarely attains to timber; when it does so it commands the 
exceptionally high price of 3s. to 4s, per foot. 
The only tree worth recording is on the lawn of a villa at 
Forton, Longparish ; it has a circumference of 8 ft. at 2 ft. up, 
when it branches into four limbs ; soil, clay, on the chalk. 
Hawrtnorn (Crategus Oxyacantha). 
This essay would not be complete without a notice of the haw- 
thorn, the poetical “May.” It occurs in every park, and fringes 
every green Jane and many a dusty road, while disputing for a 
place on the closely-cropped chalky downs. 
There are two parks in this county, namely, Hursley Park, 
near Winchester, and Hackwood Park, near Basingstoke, which 
are notable for the number and age of the trees. 
