Cupressus 1169 



Remarkable Trees 



Perhaps the largest tree ' that I know of in England grows on an open 

 hillside at Lamorran, on Lord Falmouth's property in Cornwall, and this in 1905 

 I found to be 86 ft. by 12^ ft. At the same place in a wilderness, which was 

 once the garden of the late Hon. Rev. T. Boscawen, there are several trees almost 

 if not quite as tall, with boles 8 to 9 ft. in girth, clear of branches up to 

 about 20 ft. 



At Enys, the seat of J. D. Enys, Esq., in the same county, there is a tree 80 ft. 

 by 11 ft. 5 in., which he considered the finest in Cornwall ; and at Carclew there is 

 another 84 ft. by if ft., which, however, has increased but little since 1891, when it 

 was reported under the name of C. Lambertiana as 82 ft. high, and then the largest 

 in England. 2 At Luscombe Castle there is a fine tree which Mr. Seaborne 

 measured as 91 ft. by 14 ft. 2 in. in 1909. At Penrose, near Helston, a tree 

 planted thirty-five years previously measured 3 in 1894 80 ft. in height and 19 ft. in 

 girth at 4 ft. from the ground, dividing above into six stems. 



At Beauport, Sir A. Lamb showed me in 1905 a number of fine trees varying 

 extremely in habit, of which Plate 296 shows one growing near his Araucaria grove, 

 which spreads very widely and branches near the ground. At 3 ft. it is no less than 

 1 7 ft. in girth and about 64 ft. high. Another in an open part of the park is about 

 65 ft. by 14 ft., and of such an extremely dense bushy habit that a litter of fox cubs 

 were bred in it at some distance from the ground. A third tree below the stables 

 has a narrow fastigiate habit, quite different from the others, and measures about 



70 ft. by 9! ft. 



At Coolhurst near Horsham there is a fine timber-like tree about 70 ft. high by 

 only 5 ft. in girth. Sir H. Maxwell has sent us a photograph of a tree at Wake- 

 hurst Place, Haywards Heath, which measured in 1907 70 ft. high and 9 ft. 8 in. in 

 girth at 3 ft. from the ground. 



At Brickendon Grange, Herts, which is 365 ft. above sea-level, with con- 

 siderable cold in winter, yet little spring frost, there are numerous trees in an avenue 

 averaging 65 ft. high and 5 ft. 2 in. in girth. Mr. Trotter, who presented a plank 

 to the museum at Cambridge, considers the timber excellent, being very durable 

 and strong, suitable for making wheelbarrows, carts, and rafters and beams in 

 buildings ; used for rails and posts in a fence, it has remained perfectly sound for 

 fifteen years. 



At Youngsbury, Ware, Herts, a tree planted in 1866 was 67 ft. by %>\ ft. in 1907. 

 At Cobham, Kent, a tree measured in 1906 71 ft. by 9 ft. At Wexham Place, 

 Stoke Poges, Bucks, there is a remarkable narrowly pyramidal tree, closely resembling 

 the fastigiate Mediterranean cypress in habit, which Mr. R. Woodward found to be 



71 ft. in height and 5 ft. in girth. 



At the Butlands, Burghley Park, Stamford, there is a fine specimen growing in 



1 Mr. H. Clinton-Baker made this tree 88 ft. by 13 ft. in 1909. 

 2 Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. xiv. 488 (1892). 3 Gard. Chron. xvi. 658 (1894). 



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