280 SYLVAN WINTER. 



Strutt), close by the road from London to Brighton, 

 measured sixty-one feet in* circumference at the 

 ground, and the cavity within, at two feet up, 

 measured thirty-five feet in girth. 



Of trees at present growing in Scotland, Mr. 

 Thomas Hunter, the able editor of the Perthshire 

 Constitutional and Journal, gives some most inte- 

 resting accounts in his recently published volume 

 on the ' Woods,. Forests, and Estates of Perth- 

 shire.' We shall have occasion to refer to several 

 of Mr. Hunter's facts, and in reference to Elms, 

 he gives the following particulars : An Elm at 

 Moncreiffe girths twenty feet six inches at one 

 foot, and fourteen feet eight inches at five feet 

 from the ground. One at Kilgraston girths 

 twenty-one feet at one foot, and twelve feet seven 

 inches at five feet from the ground. Two Elms 

 at Monteith girth also twenty-one feet at a foot 

 from the ground. But the two finest Elms 

 recorded by Mr. Hunter are one at St. Martins, 

 girthing at a foot from the ground twenty- 

 two feet, and fourteen feet at five feet up, with 

 fifteen feet of a bole and a magnificent top,' and 

 another at Carse of Gowrie. Of this last-men- 



