524 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



At WoUaton Hall, near Nottingham, the property of Lord Middleton, there is a 

 tree 43 feet high which at 5 feet girths 7 feet 10 inches, and at 10 feet, where it 

 forks, 8 feet. It has a spread of not less than 78 feet, which for this tree is 

 very unusual (Plate 147). It is perhaps the most symmetrical of its kind that 

 I have seen anywhere. In the Botanic Gardens at Oxford and Kew there are 

 fair-sized specimens. 



In Scotland and Ireland we know of no trees of great size, and none were 

 recorded by Loudon ; but at Glasnevin there is one about 35 feet in height, which 

 divides into three stems close to the ground, and has very pendent wide-spreading 

 branches. 



Timber 



Little or nothing is known of the timber in England, but a wood has been 

 imported to France under the name of " Noisetier," which I believe to belong to 

 this species, and which, as exhibited by M. HoUande of Paris, is very handsome. I 

 purchased some very handsome veneer from Mr. Witt of London, which he told me 

 had come to him direct from Constantinople, and which I believe was cut from the 

 root of C. Co/urna. Two good-sized logs of this tree were in the collection of 

 Servian timbers shown at the Balkan States Exhibition in London in 1907 ; one of 

 them is now in the Kew Museum. Gamble^ says that in the Himalaya it is a well- 

 grained timber, which does not warp, of a pinkish-white colour, and often shows a 

 fine shining grain resembling that of bird's-eye maple. (H. J. E.) 



1 A/an. Indian Timbers, 684 (1902). 



