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At Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk, the seat of H. Lee Warner, Esq., there was a 

 specimen figured in Grigor's Eastern Arboretum^ p. 300, as a tree clothed to the 

 ground with foliage, and of which the spreading branches were propped up. In 

 1840 it was 8 feet in girth, with a spread of branches 165 feet in circumference, but 

 is now much decayed. 



At Brightwell Park, Oxon, the property of R. Lowndes Norton, Esq., there are 

 three or four well-grown trees about 50 years old, the largest of which measures 

 68 feet by 5 feet 10 inches, and bears fruit abundantly. The leaves of these trees 

 were conspicuous by their yellow colour in the first week of October. 



At all the four last-named places these trees have been known as hickories, and 

 it is probable that others of the so-called hickories in England are really black walnuts. 



Two trees ^ growing close together at The Firs, Manor Lane, London, S.E., 

 both measured, in 1886, 10 feet 9 inches at 4 feet above the ground, and were 

 estimated to be 90 feet high. They were then in excellent health, and bore good 

 crops of nuts, which, however, were rarely perfectly developed. 



Many other trees no doubt exist in old places south of the Thames ; but we 

 have never seen or heard of any large ones in the midland or western counties. 

 Sir Charles Strickland, however, tells us that the black walnut is quite hardy in 

 Yorkshire; and that he has trees at Hildenley, 15 to 20 feet high and ripening 

 seed, whilst at Housham, another place of his in the same county, they thrive 

 even better in the woods, where they look like becoming fine timber trees. 



In Ireland, the largest tree seen by Henry is at Ballykilcavan, Queen's County : 

 it measured in 1907, 68 feet high by 9^ feet in girth. We know of no trees of any 

 size in Scotland. 



The largest which we have heard of in Europe is a tree growing at Schloss 

 Dyck, the seat of Fiirst Salm-Dyck in Germany, which was planted in 1809, and in 

 1904 measured 35 metres high by 3.58 metres in girth, with a crown diameter of 

 35 metres. 



Timber 



It is very strange that though this timber has been imported on a large scale 

 from North America for many years, both to England and the Continent, where 

 it commands a very high price, its value is quite unknown to the English country 

 timber merchant, and none of the writers on wood seem to know much about it. Even 

 Marshall Ward, in his edition of Laslett (1894), says (p. 181) that it will not bear 

 comparison with the quality of either Black Sea or Italian walnut wood. Boulger, in 

 Wood (p. 339), says that it is " more uniform in colour, darker, less liable to insect 

 attack, and thus more durable than European walnut." Stone says (p. 211), "This 

 wood is readily confused withy, regia." 



I can only say that I have seen four different trees felled in England, of which 

 the wood was perfectly distinct by its purplish colour from that of any European 

 walnut; and though I have not been able to get any definite proof of the truth of 



' Card. Chron. 1886, xxvi. 6 1 6, fig. 120. 



