88 PLANTING. 



the more valuable husbandry crops, ard the rearing and fattening of the 

 more valuable domestic animals, which, without the aids that judicious 

 forest-planting confers, would be withheld, and the land continue waste 

 and unprofitable to the owner and to the nation. 



The high perfection to which some individual trees of the different 



iia\e attained, is an object of much interest to the profitable 



planter ot forest-lives as \\ell as to all ; for who does not derive pleasure 



:ie highest order from the contemplation of woodland scenery? The 



limit* of tln-se pansys admit but of a few short notices on this point. 



The oak which was felled in April, 1791, in the park of Sir John 



:mut. Hart., at Northwich, in Worcestershire, and judged to be about 



three hundred years old, and perfectly sound and fine timber, measured 



Feet. 



In circumference, or girt, at five feet from the ground . 21 



Smallest girt . . . . . .18 



th to the branches . . . .30 



Solid contents of the body .... 634 



Estimated timber in the arms .... 200 



Cubic feet of timber . . 834 



The celebrated Fairlop oak, in Ilainault Forest, Essex, is stated to have 

 uied at three feet from the ground about thirty-six feet in circum- 

 ference, and the extremities of the branches gave a circle of three hundred 

 feet 



In \\Vlbeck Park an oak is mentioned as one hundred and eleven feet 

 in height, se\enty feet up to the branches, and the circumference at the 

 bottom twenty-one feet. 



In Holt Forest, near Farnham, an oak in 1759 girted thirty-four feet 

 at M'\cn feet from the ground; in 1778, or in nineteen years, it had in- 

 rd only half an inch. 



'akley, in Bedfordshire, the seat of the Marquis of Tavistock, there 

 is ;m oak now in perfect health, which contains about five hundred and 

 : \-M-ven cubic feet of timber, and the branches overspread a space 

 ot five thousand eight hundred and fifty superficial feet of ground. 



Mr. Uoiike-, in his account of the oaks of Welbeck, mentions that an oak 

 cut down in Birchland, had the letters I. H. more than a foot within the 

 and about a foot from the centre. It \\as supposed to be two hun- 

 dred and ninct\-t\\o years old. It was perfectly sound, and measured 

 about t\\elve feet in circumference. 



The oaks in Woburn Park have already been alluded to as being 1 trees 

 of icmarkably fine growth. There is one situated in the park, to the 

 east of the Abbey, which measures ninety feet in height, the main stem of 

 !i is fifty fret, and head above the forks forty feet. This tree contains 

 lour hundred and ninety-two cubic feet of timber. The circumference at 

 four fret from the ground is fifteen feet two inches. 



There is another fine oak, in perfect health, which contains six hundred 

 and nbic feet of timber, on the wesl of the Abbey. The circum- 



tbe M-round is thirty feet, and the height to the boughs .sixty- 

 oaks measure- t\\o thousand and sixty-eight cubic 

 . alter deductin iith, the allowance for the bark. The 



oak in this park j of that called the foot-stalked oak, 



! i nrul til a. 



'I he elm may be placed next to the oak for utility and ornament. The 



' hardy. There is one mentioned by Evelyn in Sir 



Walter Bagot'.s Park, in Staffordshire, which measured forty yards in 





