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In the following notes on College Gardens the measurements 

 art of trunk- girths taken at a height of 4 ft. above the ground. 

 Trees which are the largest of their kind in Oxford, known to the 

 compiler , are indicated by the use ^clarendon type. 



CHRIST CHURCH. The names of the principal trees in the 

 Walk round Christ Church Meadows are given in order, start- 

 ing from the Rose Lane entrance and proceeding round by 

 the Barges to the gate in Fish Street (St. Aldate's). 



Rose Lane Gate to Deep Martin. 



The young Limes in the Avenue have attained to a girth 

 of about 3 ft. 6 in. The large Poplar, P. alba, in the meadow 

 has a girth of 16 ft. 3 in. ; but its still larger companion, which 

 was blown down across the Cherwell last winter, measured 

 over 6ft. in diameter. 



Just north of the Broad Walk are : Elm, 14 ft. 10 in. ; 

 Beech, 8 ft. 3 in. ; Ash, 9 ft. 5 in. The last large Elm at 

 the end of the Broad Walk * girths 13 ft. 3 in. In the clump 

 to the south is Fraxinus monophylla ( = heterophylla\ men- 

 tioned by Walker in 1833, by Daubeny in 1864, and recently 

 measured by Mr. Druce as 65 ft. in height and 4 ft. 7 in. in 

 girth (Elwes). 



Just beyond the plantation and beside a sluice is an aged 

 Negundo fraxinifolia, 5 ft. 3 in., in a dying condition 

 obviously the result of neglect, having become overgrown 

 by large Willows. A little further on are a small-leaved Maple, 

 Acer monspessulanum, 5 ft. 6 in., and a Pyrus intermedia, of 

 5 ft. 3 in. Populus candicans, P. dilatata, and (?) canadensis 

 used to grow here. By the ferry is a Zelkova of 8 ft. 9 in. 



Between Deep Martin and the Island many fine Alders will 

 be noticed on both sides of the Cherwell ; one, with four limbs 



* Near this end of the Walk, Daubeny, in 1864, noted Fraxinus 

 heterophylla and Alnus glutinosa laciniata ; also quite young trees of 

 Ailanthus, Acer pseudo-platanus, fol. purp., Aesculus carneum, and the 

 Glastonbury Thorn of Baxter's planting. 



