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before the civil distempers broke forth, that students could 

 not but with great delight accost the Muses." 



The part afterwards associated with the name of Addison 

 is the straight walk along the north side of the Meadow. 

 There the eminent historian, John Richard Green, as a boy, 

 "thought less of Addison than of wasps' nests and craw- 

 fishing." 



The principal trees in the "green natural cloister of our 

 Academe " are Elm, Beech, Horse-chestnut, Hornbeam, and 

 Oak. The largest Oak, near the end of the New Buildings, 

 girths 9 ft. 3 in. A tall Lombardy Poplar growing on the 

 steep side of the bank at the western end of Addison's Walk 

 exhibits a fine example of a buttressed stem. The trunk is 

 + -shaped, and measures 4 ft. across, and is admirably adapted 

 to withstand the strains put upon it. 



From the landscape gardener's point of view, the beauty of 

 Addison's Walk was greatly impaired in 1906, when the 

 position of the ditch was moved and a bank of earth was 

 thrown against the original steep south bank of the Walk. 

 The effect of a narrow plantation on the side of a steep 

 bank was better than that of a wider plantation on a more 

 level surface. 



The black swans were presented by the Vintners' Company 

 in July, 1904. 



When the new walk from Addison's Walk to King's Mill, 

 with two bridges across the Cherwell, was commenced about 

 1867, in accordance with the plans of Mr. T. H. T. Hopkins, 

 some interesting trees were planted along what is now known 

 as the " Fellows' Walk." 



The present dimensions of the largest of the trees may 

 be of interest a century hence. We give them in order from 

 the Walks to the King's Mill Gate : 



Maple, 6 ft. 10 in. Red Horse-chestnut, 4 ft. 6 in. 



Lombardy Poplar, 7 ft. 6 in. Variegated Sycamore, 4 ft. 6 in. 



Plane, 5 ft. 4 in. Lime, 4 ft. 



