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Lee Court, Blackheath, Kent. — Girth of an oriental 

 plane at 6 feet, 14 feet 8 inches. Height 60 feet 

 (Strutt's Sylva Brit., 182 2). 



PiiLSTON Park, Yorkshire. — The following dimensions 

 furnished me hy the Eev. J. J. D. Dent : — 



The rate of a Flatanus at the Chantry, Bradford-on- 

 Avon, "Wilts, 7 feet 10 inches in girth at 5 feet up, for 

 two years, was I'oO inch (Dr. Beddoe, 1892). 



XII. The Birch {Bdulu alha). 



Professor Walker, 1790, quotes from the Stat. Hist, that 

 " many birches in Darnaway Forest girthed 9 feet," and that 

 a birch at Ballogie, Aberdeen, was judged to be 100 feet high. 



" A large grove at Balmacniel, Perthshire, 4 to 5 feet in 

 girth at 5 feet up, and 50 to 70 feet high " (Sir li. Christi- 

 son, 1879). 



From tlie above it does not appear that the birch often 

 attains a great magnitude. Nevertheless, 1 liave measured 

 one at Newton Don, Jloxburgh, girtliing 1 '.\ feet \ an inch 

 at the narrowest part of the short stem, which forks at 30 

 inclies above ground, one limb girtliing 9 feet 2 inches, the 

 other 7 feet 4-2- incljes at 5 feet uj) ; lieiglit 80 feet; 

 l)ranch spread 70 feet (Sept. 1893). 



In England, two at Moccas Park, Herefoid, girth 10 

 feet 1 inch and 9 feet 2 inches at 5 feet uj) (Trans. Wool- 

 liope Club, 1870); and one at Holwood, Kent, 12 feet 

 2 inches at 3 feet, and 1 2 feet 1 inch at 5 feet ; stem 



