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the gate is an Alder, the short trunk of which has a girth 

 of 10 ft., but it soon divides into three very tall and straight 

 limbs. Not far from the water are a Walnut, an Ilex (far 

 more picturesque with its stunted trunk and seven limbs 

 than a forester's tree), and a Weeping Ash. 



Two large Willows, one of 15 ft. girth, grow upon the canal 

 bank, by the side of the walk leading to the north end of the 

 cricket field, where the present Bursar is planting a variety of 

 interesting trees along what promises to be a picturesque 

 extension of the walk, as well as a much-needed screen. A 

 Poplar on the east side girths 14 ft. 4 in. 



In the Fellows' Garden, which is believed to have been laid 

 out in 1813, there are the fine Beech (8 ft. 9 in.) already 

 mentioned, a Robinia (9 ft. i in.) which seems to be nearing 

 the limit of its life, and a Mulberry of 6 ft. 6 in., with an 

 epiphytic gooseberry living upon it. 



In the Provost's Garden there are a fine Ash (3 ft. 7 in.), 

 and a Hornbeam of 5 ft. 10 in. 



WADHAM COLLEGE GARDEN was originally laid out in the 

 grotesque taste of the seventeenth century, with clipped 

 parterres and an artificial mount, shown in Loggan's 

 engraving, which lasted at least as late as 1733. The 

 garden was brought into its present " romantic " form 

 at the end of the eighteenth century under the direction of 

 Shipley, who was employed by Warden Wills. 



The sole surviving Cedar of Lebanon brings back painful 

 memories of the loss of its companion on April 25, 1908, 

 when an unexpected fall of clinging snow brought it down.* 



* As the Warden contemplated the fallen tree, there fell from his lips 

 the Sophoclean reflection 



cr/jUKpa TraXaia (rc6/*ar' evvdfei po7r>7, 



while the Subwarden relieved his feelings in an epigram : 

 Non hiemi vires te, maxima, rumpere veris 



Formosam tacitae surripuere nives, 



It had been the scene of a story well known in Wadham, about a Scholar 

 of the College who was once found sitting in the tree in scanty raiment. 

 He ; long afterwards, became an eminent Bishop. 



