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A Lime at Dopenham in Norfolk, described by 

 Dr. Brown in a letter to Evelyn, measured at six 

 feet from the ground twenty-five and a half feet. 

 The Moor Park Lime, when figured by Mr. Strutt, 

 was twenty-three feet three inches in girth at 

 the ground. Its branches extended 122 feet in 

 diameter, and covered 360 feet in circumference, 

 and it was nearly 100 feet high, and contained by 

 actual measurement 875 feet of saleable timber. 

 The Lime at Cobham Park, Sir T. D. Lauder said, 

 was more than twenty-eight feet in girth at the 

 ground, ninety-one feet high, and contained 536 

 feet of timber. He added : ' Sir Thomas Brown 

 mentions a Lime tree in the county of Norfolk 

 ninety feet high, and with a trunk forty-eight feet in 

 circumference at a foot and a half from the root.' 

 At Lawers in Scotland, Mr. Hunter mentions 

 a Lime twenty-four feet six inches at one foot 

 from the ground, and eighteen feet four inches at 

 five feet. 



Of gigantic Oaks, there is abundant record, and 

 Gilpin gives some interesting passages concerning 

 many of the most famous. "We must quote a 

 passage or two. Of the ' Oaks of Chaucer,' he 



