52 Yew- Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



a rate of increase which gives i foot of diameter 

 in a little over fifty-two years. 



At Parkhill, near Blairgowrie, is an old yew-tree 

 with a girth of 15 feet at 5 feet from the ground.^ 

 It measures at the ground 14 feet 5 inches, and 

 was 'probably planted in 16 10.' This would make 

 it 280 years old, yielding i foot of diameter in 

 fifty-six years. By Sir R. Christison's calculation 

 of I foot in seventy-five years the age would appear 

 ^•s 375. One at Pitmedden,^ in the same county, 

 which was planted in 1675 by Sir A. Seton, is now 

 10 feet 8 inches at 3 feet" from the ground. The 

 rate of increase in this case is very nearly i foot of 

 diameter in sixty-one years. 



At Hurstbourne Tarrant, near Andover, there 

 are two yew-trees in the churchyard, one being 

 8 feet 4 inches, the other 7 feet 3 inches, in 

 circumference. The Parish Reoister thus records 

 their planting. Of the former it says : — 



' The ewtree near to the vicar's garden planted 

 by Sam: Hoskins (vicar) in y'' year 1693.' 



It is thus a little over two hundred years old. 



The latter is 155 years old, as appears from the 

 Resfister : — 



'Memorandum: Oct. 10, 1741. There was an 

 yew-tree planted in the churchyard pretty near 

 the outward rails. By the order and at the 



^ Trans. Roy. A7-boricult. Soc., vol. xii. part 3. 

 - Hutchison, op. cit., 1890. 



