REPORT UN OLD AND REMARKABLE TREES. 151 



No. 18 is a minor companion cedar to No. 17, and evidently 

 planted at the same time, but in poorer soil, which accounts for 

 its inferiority. At 1 foot high it measures 1 2 feet ; and at 5 feet 

 up it is 11 feet 10 inches in circumference. The entire spread of 

 its branches is 53 feet, while its total height is 70 feet. 



No. 19 is a pollard Spanish chestnut, in one of the avenues at 

 Wilderness Park, which measures 19 feet 3 inches in circumfer- 

 ence at 1 foot from the ground ; at 5 feet is 17 feet round ; 

 and at the height of 11 feet it sends out monster branches, 

 expanding to the breadth of 60 feet. The breadth and height of 

 the branches of this tree are equal. 



No. 20 is a pollard Spanish chestnut, growing beside No. 19, 

 which measures 21 feet round at 1 foot up ; at 5 feet is 19 feet 

 4 inches; and at the height of 9 feet it sends out eight large 

 branches, some of which are nearly 3 feet in diameter. There 

 are several pollard trees in this avenue, which have had large 

 branches broken off by wind close to the stem ; their stumps 

 have been neatly sawn off, and the wounds plastered over with 

 Portland cement, which is admirably adapted for this purpose, as 

 it entirely excludes rain, sun, and weather from acting on and 

 decomposing the tissues of the wood, and thereby prevents decay 

 spreading in the trunk. 



No. 21 is a fine old park beech, in the home park at Wilder- 

 ness, which is 30 feet round the swell of the roots 1 foot from the 

 ground ; at the height of 5 feet it is 17 feet 6 inches in cir- 

 cumference ; at the height of 1 2 feet it sends up a profusion of 

 branches, which expand 74 feet wide ; and the height of the tree 

 is 66 feet. 



No. 22 is an oak in Chance Wood, on Wilderness estate, and 

 growing on a sharp sandy loam. At 1 foot from the ground it is 

 15 feet 10 inches round; and at 5 feet it is 12 feet 6 inches. 

 From thence it runs up with a fine, clean, straight, sound, and hand- 

 some stem, without a single branch to the height of 40 feet, where 

 it is 8 feet in circumference. At this height it sends out its 

 branches, which expand only 30 feet, being pressed on all sides by 

 tall heavy beech trees. The entire height of this fine oak is 85 

 feet. 



No. 23 is an oak, also in Chance Wood, which is at 1 foot 

 from the ground 1 7 feet in circumference ; at 5 feet is 1 2 feet 6 

 inches ; and from thence it ascends with a very handsome, clean, 

 straight, and sound bole, to the height of 52 feet to the first 



