Holly, Yew and Box 



in his day grew at Claremont in Surrey : it was 80 

 feet high, with a head 25 feet in diameter and a 

 trunk with a diameter of 2 feet 2 inches. The 

 largest tree in England that I have been able to 

 discover is growing at Mount Edgcumbe. This 

 is 70 feet high with a clear trunk of 30 feet, 

 which is 6 feet in girth at 3 feet above the ground, 

 and a branch-spread of 42 feet. 



At Kew the largest tree, now unfortunately 

 in a dying condition, is 50 feet high with a girth 

 of 5 feet 8 inches at 3 feet above the ground and 

 7 feet 9 inches near the ground. A healthy 

 specimen with a double trunk near the south end 

 of the rockery is 55 feet high with a trunk girth 

 of 4 feet 10 inches at 3 feet above the ground. 



Several fine specimens are reported from 

 Scotland, notably at Tynynghame, the seat of the 

 Earl of Haddington, where one which in 1812 

 girthed 5 feet 5 inches at 5 feet above the ground, 

 measured in November 1906, 6 feet 7 inches at 

 a similar height. Other trees on the same estate 

 with tall, clear stems girth between 5 J and 6 feet. 

 At Carnsalloch, in Dumfries, there is a tree 35 

 feet high with a girth of 6 J feet. 



The Encyclopedia Britannica records a tree 

 growing on Bleak Hill, Shropshire, with a girth 

 of 14 feet at some distance above the ground. 



Selby, in his Forest Trees, pp. 33-40, mentions 

 a historic tree at Floors Castle, Roxburghshire, 

 which marked the place where James II. was 



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