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measurement, it is necessary to choose the narrowest jDoint, 

 although to give any true idea of size it is necessary to give 

 several particulars. 



Scottish Yews. — A catalogue of existing Scottish yews 

 serves but to show their great inferiority to the celebrated 

 Fortingall tree, reputed to be 54 feet in girth, of which 

 mere fragments remain. The largest recorded survivor — at 

 Craigends, IJenfrew — is only 2 1 feet in girth, and probably 

 no other exceeds 14i feet at the narrowest point. Very 

 few attain a great height. A yew at Bute stands clearly 

 at the head with 64 feet, and only two others exceed 50 

 feet. 



Yews above 13 feet in girth, probably at the narrowest 

 part of the stem. From Mr. Hutchison's Table of 107 

 Scottish yews (Trans. Eoy. Scot. Arb. Soc, 1890). 



A remarkably fine thriving yew at Arngomery, Kippen, 

 Stirling, measured by Mr. Malcolm Dunn, 1893, was 

 1 G feet 2 inches in girth at the ground ; 1 3 feet at 1 foot ; 

 11 feet 1 inch at 5 feet; 11 feet 8 inches at 7 feet; 

 circumference of branches, 220 feet; height, 38 feet. 

 Height of clean stem, 8 feet ; of bole, 15 feet. 



A decaying yew on Glenmorristou Estate, four miles east 

 of Fort-Augustus, roughly measured by Mr. Ewan Cameron, 

 Glenlea, was 14 ft. in girth at 2 ft. up, and 80 paces in 

 circumference of foliage (D. Brown Anderson, W.S., 1893). 



English Yeavs.' — If Evelyn is to be trusted, the largest- 

 girthed British yew, or tree of any kind, of which we have 

 any record, existed in his day, 1665, at Brabourne, Kent, 

 as a ruin with a trunk 60 feet in girth. iSTot a vestige 

 of it remains. 



