MAGDALEN COLLEGE 



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MEASUREMENTS 

 Butt . . . . 20 ft. X 6| ft. = 860 C. ft. 



Limb i . . . 30 ft. x 30 in. = 187 



2 . . . 30 ft. x 20 in. = 83 



3 . . . 20 ft. x 48 in. = 320 



4 . . . 40 ft. x 20 in. = 1 1 1 



5 . . . 30 ft. x 18 in. = 40 



6 . . . 25 ft. x 20 in. = 156 



7 . . .25 ft. x 24 in. = loo 

 Top, measured down to 6 in. (roughly) = 100 



1.957 ,, 



A large Elm, having a girth of 22 ft., is mentioned by John 

 Wesley (Journal for 1782) as growing "in Magdalen College 

 Walk." It is not impossible that he might have been referring 

 to either of the above-mentioned trees or to a tree coeval 

 with them. 



The fallen tree is so rotten in the interior that it is im- 

 possible to count annual rings, but Sir William Schlich is of 

 opinion that it was at least 300 years old. If so, it might 

 have been one of the very few trees spared by Cromwell's 

 soldiers for the purpose of hanging Royalists from. 



The largest surviving Wych Elm in the Grove has a girth 

 of 2 2 ft. i in. at 4 ft. from the base. 



A Mulberry and an Elm were planted in the Grove by 

 Prince Christian Victor on November 1 7, 1898, about two years 

 before his death in the Boer War. Both trees are doing well, 

 their girths being now i ft. 3 in. and i ft. 6 in. respectively. 



In front of the President's Lodgings stood a venerable 

 Acacia, "divagating in three mighty stems, of late years 

 carefully propped." Once, when Dr. Routh was at Tilehurst, 

 word was sent that a heavy gale had blown the tree down. 

 "Then let it be put up again," said the President. It was 

 pulled up by ropes, laid over the roof of the Lodgings, and 

 lived for many years, and, as Mr. Wilson informs me, was, when 

 he first saw it, still capable of producing a good crop of leaves 



