i8o The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



At Barton, Suffolk, there are three trees, which measured in 1903, (a) in the 

 Arboretum, 50 feet by 5 feet 5 inches, dying ; (d) a smaller tree beside it, in a worse 

 condition ; (c) on the lawn, 56 feet by 4 feet 3 inches. The latter tree' was planted 

 in 1826, the other two in 1831. It is evident that the dry though deep soil at 

 Barton is not favourable to the growth of this species. 



At Frogmore, Windsor, there are two specimens very different in habit. One, 

 a clean -stemmed tree, growing near water, but without knees, is 80 feet by 

 8 feet 6 inches. The other, not so large, has a weeping habit, and is branched to 

 the ground. 



At Strathfieldsaye there is a tree, mentioned by Loudon as being 46 feet in 

 height by 3 feet 4 inches in diameter, which I found in 1903 to be 63 feet high 

 by 9 feet in girth. It is growing in stiff clay soil and has no knees ; the stem is 

 deeply furrowed. 



At Dropmore there is a tree beside a pond, planted in 1843, *"*^ "ow 

 measuring 60 feet by 5 feet 9 inches. 



At South Lodge, Enfield, a tree is growing near water, with small knees, 

 which, measured by Henry in 1904, was yy feet by 11 feet 10 inches. 



At Combe Abbey, Warwickshire, Mr. W. Miller ^ reports that a tree, mentioned 

 by Loudon as 47 feet by 2 feet 3 inches in 1843, had attained, in 1887, 75 feet by 

 1 1 feet 6 inches at 3 feet from the ground. 



At Longford Castle,' Salisbury, there are two trees, growing within a few yards 

 of the river Avon. One, very tall, has a straight trunk free from branches for about 

 30 feet, and a girth of 8 feet 10 inches at 4 feet from the ground. The other is 

 6 feet in girth, and branches at 7 feet up. 



At Brockett's Park, near Hatfield, the residence of Lord Mountstephen, there 

 are many trees planted along a walk on the banks of the Lee, and forming an 

 irregular line in which the trees vary very much in size. In the sheltered part of the 

 valley, where the soil and situation are very favourable, they average 70 to 80 feet 

 high, the best I measured being 80 feet by 10 feet and 86 feet by 9 feet. But lower 

 down the stream, where the valley is more exposed to the wind, they are stunted, 

 and not more than half the height of those above. There are knees on some of 

 the trees overgrown with moss and meadowsweet, but not so large as those 

 at Syon. 



At Upper Nutwell, near Exeter, there is a tree which Mr. G. H. Hodgkinson 

 informed me in June 1904 was 84 feet high by 1 1 feet 9 inches in girth. 



Large trees have been reported at many other places, especially in the south of 

 England, viz. : 



Connington Castle,* Huntingdonshire, a tree 70 feet by 7 feet in 1877; 

 Watford,* Herts, 85 feet by 14 feet in 1884; Stanwell, Surrey, a tree 13 feet in 

 girth in 1904; Embley," near Romsey, Hampshire, a tree 8^ feet in girth in 1872, 

 standing on the top of a hill. 



' liunbury, Arboretum Notes, i6l. * Card. Chron. 1905, xxxvii. 12. ' Ganlen, 1890, xxxvii. 538. 



* Ibid. 1877, xii. 405. 5 Woods and Forests, 1884, p. 546. ' Reported by Sir Hugh Beevor. 



' Bunbury, Arboretum Notes, 161. 



