268 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



79 feet by 12 feet. At Syon House there was a fine tree mentioned by Loudon, 

 as then 79 feet high and 2 feet 11 inches in diameter. In 1849, according to 

 the manuscript catalogue of trees at Syon, it was 90 feet by 7 feet 3 inches ; 

 when I saw it in 1903 its top was gone, the tree fast decaying, and the girth 

 about 10 feet. 



At Youngsbury, near Ware, Herts, there are two fine trees which Mr. H. Clinton 

 Baker measured in March 1906. The larger was 90 feet high by 11 feet 10 inches 

 in girth ; the smaller 80 feet by 1 1 feet 3 inches. At Albury, Surrey, near the 

 gardener's cottage, there is a tree which measured in 1904, 90 feet by 9 feet 2 inches. 

 At Arley Castle a black walnut is bearing mistletoe. At Barton, near Bury St. 

 Edmunds, there is one which is about 75 feet by 7 feet, which cannot be more 

 than about 60 years old. 



Sir Hugh Beevor reports a fine tree, 80 feet high by 12 feet girth, at Spixworth 

 Hall, Norfolk. In the rooms of the Hall there is some flooring made of locally- 

 grown black walnut. At Wimpole, he measured another tree 78 feet by 12 feet 

 8 inches. 



At Strathfieldsaye there is a plantation of eighteen young black walnuts in a 

 group on the lawn, which, though about eighteen years old when I saw them in 1903, 

 were only 8 to 10 feet high. Three others raised at the same time but planted out 

 younger are twice as high. This seems to me to prove the importance of not keeping 

 this tree long in the nursery. A fine tree on the other side of the house at the same 

 place is about 80 feet by 7 feet, and had a few nuts on it even in the wet season 

 of 1903. 



At Fulham Palace there was a tree, which, according to Loudon, was 150 years 

 old in 1835, being then about 70 feet high and 5 feet in diameter. In 1879^ this 

 tree was 16 feet in girth breast-high, and had passed its prime ; and has been quite 

 dead for ten years. This is the largest girth of any black walnut recorded in 

 England. 



At Bisham Abbey, near Marlow, the property of Sir H. J. Vansittart Neale, 

 growing in a grove near the garden, where they have been drawn up by other trees, 

 are four fine black walnuts, of the age of which there is no record. The tallest 

 is nearly if not quite 100 feet high, with a clean bole about half as long, and a 

 girth of 8 feet 2 inches ; the others have shorter trunks, the biggest being 10 feet 

 3 inches in girth, and another 8 feet 6 inches, but are nearly as tall. 



At Corsham Court, Wilts, the seat of Lord Methuen, is one of the finest 

 specimens in England, with a clean trunk about 35 feet without a branch and 

 1 1 feet 5 inches in girth. It is 75 to 80 feet high, and has a very spreading crown 

 of drooping branches, which cover a space 30 yards across. At Lacock Abbey, 

 near Corsham, the seat of Mr. C. H. Talbot, are some good trees planted by the 

 grandfather of the present owner between 1780 and 1800, of which the largest is 

 about 100 feet by 1 1 feet 5 inches, with a bole of 8 feet, but this has ceased to bear 

 nuts. The others were planted subsequent to 1828, and the best of them is 60 to 

 70 feet high by 7 feet girth, and bears nuts profusely. 



' Figured in Card. Chron. 1879, xi. 372, t. 52. Cf. p. 265. 



