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two cases, but the enormous area covered by the branches 

 and its symmetry can hardly be equalled. Some of the 

 horizontal branciwfclRttt from 64 to 75 feet from the 

 bole. One can have no idea of the grandeur of this 

 magnificent tree unless it is seen from below^ the shade 

 of its noble branches. It is like a great cathedral. It 

 is still in vigorous health. 



No. 2, a fine specimen. Girth measuring, at 5 feet, 

 25 ft. 6 ins., and at 8 feet, up to 26 ft. 9 ins. Height, 

 100 feet. Area of branches, 370 feet. This is not such 

 a spreading specimen as No. i, but is a noble-looking 

 tree. 



No. 3, 99 feet in height, 25 ft. 6 ins. in girth at 3 feet. Spread 

 of branches covers an area of 345 feet (circumference). 



No. 4, 103 feet in height, 24 ft. 6 ins. in girth at 3 feet up. 

 Circumference of area covered by branches, 360 feet. 



" These four trees are growing in fairly good park soil (flinty, 

 gravelly, some loam) overlying a deep bed of soft, muddy sand. 

 Beneath all this lies the chalk, 1000 feet or more in depth. 

 These four trees are all standing, w^ell sheltered, within 250 yards 

 of each other. 



" Some clean trunks, long and straight, have been produced 

 in one case where the cedars were planted with other trees (ever- 

 green oaks). The cedars have reached heights of 85 feet and 

 90 feet, and the girths at 3 feet up varies from 8J feet to 

 13 J feet. The evergreen oaks have been cleared away in late 

 years, and the clean cedar trunks are very handsome as they 

 stand out by themselves. 



"All the trees growing on the deeper soil at the foot of the 

 Downs (which though not rich is never cold nor water-logged) 

 are in full vigour and show little or no sign of deterioration, but 

 many of those in the thin soil of the slopes of the Downs have 

 reached or passed their zenith. The following measurements, 

 though, will show how well they grow for 150 to 170 years even 

 in this poorer soil, so long as they are well sheltered from 

 prevailing gales from south to south-west: — 



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