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treated was taken for me by Mr. Elsden of Hertford, at Waterhall, a farm on Mr. 

 H. Clinton Baker's property near Bayfordbury, Herts, in January 1907 (Plate 

 149). At Essendon, Herts, Mr. Baker, in 1906 measured a tree, 81 feet by 

 II feet 2 inches; a pollarded tree at the same place being 56 feet high by 18 feet 

 in girth. Sir Hugh Beevor measured in 1891 a hornbeam in Hatfield Park, Herts, 

 which was 17^ feet in girth at about 4 feet from the ground. 



The iinest and largest examples of pollard hornbeams that I have seen are in 

 Easton Park, Essex, the seat of the Earl of Warwick. A group of these trees, 

 growing near the park-keeper's house, which was shown me by Mr. Rogers, agent 

 for the Easton property, contains several trees of great beauty, which were in flower 

 on 7th April. The largest of these measures no less than 28 feet round the head at 

 about 8 feet from the ground, and 12 feet 2 inches at 2 feet (Plate 150). Another 

 near it, dividing into two stems which are united at the crown, was 25 feet in girth 

 at 7 feet and 1 7^ feet at 2 feet. A third, growing at some distance, has perhaps the 

 finest head of all, and measures 26 feet round the head with a bole about 1 1 feet high. 

 Mr. Shenstone tells me that the largest he has seen in Epping Forest is 27 feet in 

 girth round the head, and he showed me another very old one in Braxted Park which 

 was over 20 feet round. 



Mrs. Delves Broughton has sent me a photograph (Plate 151) of a very fine 

 group of hornbeams in Weald Park, Essex, the seat of C. J. H. Tower, Esq., in 

 which, according to the measurements sent me by Mr. T. W. Bacon, the two largest 

 trees are 75 feet by 16 feet 9 inches, and 88 feet by 15 feet 4 inches. 



At Elveden, Suffolk, there is a very well-shaped and handsome tree in front of 

 the house, which, as I was told by the late Prof. A. Newton, is probably not more 

 than 140 years old, and measured, when I saw it in 1907, 75 feet by 10 feet. 



At Nibley, Gloucestershire, there is a tree, of which Col. Noel has been good 

 enough to send me a photograph, which measures about 80 feet by 1 1 feet 6 inches 

 with a bole of 8 feet and a spread of 80 feet diameter. In Bitton churchyard, 

 Gloucestershire, there is a tree planted since 181 7 by Canon Ellacombe's father 

 which is 65 feet by 8 feet 2 inches. At St. Pierre Park, near Chepstow, Major 

 Stacey showed me a very fine hornbeam which, though not very tall, and with a bole 

 only 10 feet high by 11 feet 7 inches in girth, spreads over an area 112 paces round. 



In the wooded part of Kew Gardens, there are several fine trees, the best of 

 which is 70 feet high and 10 feet in girth, dividing into three stems at 7 feet 

 from the ground. One tree, 5^ feet in girth, has bark on the lower part of the 

 trunk, divided into raised longitudinal ridges, which are covered with small scales. 

 At Heron Court, Hants, there is a beautiful tree near the front entrance, 70 feet by 

 10 feet 5 inches with a spread of 25 yards. 



At Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, Lord Kesteven measured, in 1906, a tree T] feet 

 high by 9 feet 4 inches in girth. At Castle Howard the hornbeam grows well and 

 there are several large trees, the tallest being about 80 feet high, the thickest 9 feet 

 3 inches in girth. At Studley Park, Yorkshire, in the valley below Fountains 

 Abbey, there are several very fine hornbeams, probably the same as those figured 

 by Loudon (ff. 1933, ^934' '935)' which were in 1838 50 to 60 and one 73 feet high. 



