T. baccata 



year, and it appears to be in the best of health 

 and shows no sign of its former clipping. The 

 trunk is remarkable for its burrs and swollen 

 portions, which cause the girth to differ consider- 

 ably in the space of a few inches, a foot higher 

 than the place where my measurement was taken 

 will probably girth 2 feet more, whilst at 8 feet, 

 where it divides into two trunks, it is even more. 

 The churchyard contains a second tree of good 

 size. It is about 40 feet high and the trunk is 

 13 feet in diameter at 4 feet above the ground, a 

 place where it is rather curiously swollen. Other 

 places where large trees are recorded are in 

 Mamhilad churchyard, a few miles north of 

 Pontypool ; at Llanthewy Vach near Caerleon ; 

 in Gresford churchyard, Derbyshire; in Iffley 

 churchyard, Oxfordshire ; Tirbury churchyard, 

 Dorsetshire; Tytherley churchyard, Wiltshire; 

 near this latter an avenue of Yews 414 yards 

 long, consisting of 162 trees, is also recorded; 

 at Crom Castle, the seat of Lord Erne, there is 

 a tree which is said to cover of an acre of 

 ground, this was planted 1 100 years ago. Several 

 old trees are to be seen at " The Hendre," the 

 Monmouthshire seat of Lord Llangattock ; one 

 of these I measured in June 1907 and found it 

 to be 1 8 J feet in girth at 3 feet above the ground. 

 In addition to these many other large examples 

 have been recorded, but space will not allow of 

 their inclusion. 



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