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who had been chaplain to the Levant Company at Aleppo in 

 1630-6, when he became our Professor of Arabic. The con- 

 dition of the tree in 1806 is shown in a print by J. Storer, 

 with the title 



Arbor Pocockiana, imagine accuratissima aere expressa. 

 Ficus Arbor, ex Syria olim regione a Celeberrimo EDVARDO 

 POCOCKIO, circiter centum et septuaginta abhinc annis, prima 

 quidem sui generis, in Britanniam advecta, hodieque in horto 

 Professor is Ling, Heb. apud Oxonienses, virens etfructuosa. 



Junii i2 mo , A.D. 1806. 

 Altitude Arboris 21 pedes ; ambitus trunci 

 in parte superiori, 3 pedes 6 unciae. 



In the Deanery Garden grew the large Jamaica Walnut 

 described by Pointer as a tall tree in 1749. The Common 

 Room table was made from it. About a hundred years ago it 

 was replaced by a Horse-chestnut which has grown to be a 

 perfect specimen tree, with a trunk-girth of 12 ft. 6 in. and 

 a spread of branches of about 17 yds. in diameter. The 

 Virginian Creeper against the Library, when in autumn it 

 glows red over the ivy, is one of the most beautiful colour- 

 effects in Oxford. 



In the Archdeacon's Garden may be seen the holes which 

 Buckland built to test the truth of the stories of the longevity 

 of frogs imprisoned in cavities of rocks. 



PEMBROKE COLLEGE. The Mulberry in the corner of the 

 Fellows' Garden has a trunk-girth of 4 ft. 10 in. It may 

 conceivably be the same tree as the one described by Loudon 

 in 1838 as being 25 ft. high, with a trunk-girth of 2 ft. 2 in. 

 One of the two original Mulberries, called Shenstone's, planted 

 before 1624, lived until 1833. Two tables in the Common 

 Room were made of its wood, and also a carved snuff-box as 

 a " Memento mori." The Limes were planted in 1864. 



MERTON GARDEN used to be much admired for the natural 

 growth of the trees as compared with the stiff and formal 



