Rings of Wood 



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there would result an opening to the central stem, 

 such as we often find in old trees. Near Tintern 



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SFXTIONAL VIEW OF YEW-TREE IN NORBURY PARK. 



there are several trees showing this peculiarity in 

 growth. One of 

 these is especially 

 noteworthy as ex- 

 hibiting what I 

 have never before 

 seen — the simul- f^- ' \ 

 taneous growth of \ 

 two rinQ^s after the 

 death of the main 

 stem, which has a 

 diameter of i foot. 

 The circumference 



of the outer circle sectional view of yew tkices at tintern. 



is 15 feet, and in sixty or seventy years the individual 



