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instead of 500, and it is possible that they might 

 be even less than this. He says further : ' There 

 is, in the same wood, an avenue 414 yards long, 

 consisting of 162 yew-trees, which are supposed 

 to be about 200 years old. They average 30 feet 

 high, with trunks about 2 feet in diameter at 2 feet 

 from the ground ; and heads 30 feet in diameter.' 

 By the same method of computation these trees 

 would be 150 years old, and not 200. The next 

 passage, saying, ' Another avenue, planted about 

 1 60 years ago, and 400 yards long, consists of 1 20 

 trees, averaging about 24 feet high, with trunks 

 about 2 feet in diameter,' is pretty good proof of 

 the accuracy of this estimate. 



Ulcombe, near Maidstone. — In the churchyard 

 are four yew-trees, three of which are of unusual 

 size. The following are their measurements, which 

 I took (Sept. 27th, 1892) : — 



No. I, near the west end of the church, is 

 35 feet in girth at 3 feet from the ground. The 

 central stem, which is much gnarled, and covered 

 with short dead branches, measured at 17 feet, 

 10 feet 3 inches in circumference. The height is 

 about 27 feet. Three years ago a large branch 

 about 3 feet in diameter was blown off. Much 

 spray and many bosses are found on the trunk, 

 and the shoots are much infested with galls both 

 in this tree and in 



No. 2, at the east end, which is a female. 



