3o6 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



"Besides a great many used on the ground, from 1729 to 1763, plants were 

 drawn out and sold to the amount of . 



In the year 1764 by 1500 poles sold 

 1765 by 1374 

 1767 by 468 



1770 by 501 



1 771 by 440 

 1777 by 280 

 1 78 1 by 150 



1793 by loi 



1794 by 150 

 ,, 1797 by 30 trees sold 



1799 by 100 ,, . 



From the year 1800 to 18 10 by 307 trees sold 

 ,, 181 1 to the year 1821 by 94 . 



1821 1833 by 36 . 



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The underwood never came to perfection, but was 

 stubbed up in the year 1767, and the feed of the 

 ground let for los. an acre for thirty years 



Value of the feed at the same price to the present 

 time ...... 



There are now 320 trees standing, worth if now 

 felled ...... 



120 



144 o o 



1 200 o o 



;^2778 10 o 



" The expenses of felling cannot be now correctly ascertained, but the topwood 

 is not included in the above account of receipts, nor a great many trees which have 

 been used on the premises from the year 1 763 to the present time, and at a moderate 

 estimate must have much more than paid for the expenses of the labour. Tiios. 

 Howes, Morningthorpe, April 22nd, 1834."^ 



The Earl of Darnley showed me an oak in "Mount Meadow," near Cobham, 

 planted by Lady Elizabeth Brownlow, who was born in the year i8(X), which there- 

 fore could not be much over 100 years old. It has a straight clean bole measuring 

 about 40 feet by 12 feet 10 inches, and a small spreading top. 



The following extract from a letter of Robert Marsham to Gilbert White is 

 worth quoting, though I could not identify the tree when I visited the place recently. 



" Siraiion, 24M /u/y 1790. I early began planting, and an oake which I 



' Sir Hugh Beevor in 1902 measured eleven of the oaks remaining in this grove, which was nearly all felled in 

 1885, and found that they averaged 80 to 90 feet high by 8 feet 2 inches in girth at 6 feet, the cubic contents being 

 about 14s feet each. 



