1 6 Yew- Trees of Gi'eat Britain and Ireland 



with beech, sycamores, willows, etc., the whole 

 surmounted by Scotch firs, with their red stems 

 gleaming in the sunshine. This kind of effect is 

 seen to orreatest advantage on a hill-side. The 

 Clieveden trees are with one exception not of any 

 great age. On the upper and lower parts of the 

 hill they are well-grown and vigorous, but those 

 growing midway are much paler in colour and of 

 various shades of yellow. This is evidently due 

 to some peculiarity in the soil, which renders them 

 unhealthy, as numbers are already dead.^ These, 

 when covered by a profuse growth of clematis, in 

 flower, and backed by darker and more healthy 

 yews, afford a picture of surprising beauty. 



In Ireland there are some fine yew avenues 

 where these trees appear to grow with great luxuri- 

 ance and rapidity. At Glencormac, Co. Wicklow, 

 in the grounds of R. S. Langworth-Damer, Esq., 

 there is an avenue of ten trees having a girth of 

 lo feet and upwards. 



At Clonfert, in King's County, there is another 

 284 yards in length, the trees of which have a 

 ofirth of 6 to 8 feet. 



There is an avenue of eleven very old trees on 

 the property of Mrs. Jameson, Glencormack, near 

 Bray. There are others at Mount Wilson, Eden- 



1 Some of these may have been killed by the clematis, but the number of 

 dead trees on which there is no climber points to there being something 

 deleterious in the soil. 



