TIMBER TREES. 



a small portion of witch hazel, without which the 

 dairymaids imagine that they would not be able to 

 get the butter to come. 



Gerard tells us that when long bows were in use 

 there were very many made of the wood of this tree, 

 for which purpose it is mentioned in the English, 

 statutes by the name of witch hasell. 



The Tutbury wych 

 elm, described and 

 measured by Strutt, had 

 a trunk sixteen feet nine 

 inches in circumference 

 at five feet from the 

 ground. An elm called 

 the Trysting Tree, at 

 Roxburgh, in Teviot- 

 dale, was measured in 

 1796, and its girth at 

 four feet from the sur- 

 face of the ground was 

 thirty feet. There are 

 still large trees of this 

 species in Scotland, 

 though not attaining the 

 above recorded dimen- 

 sions. 



In a note to " Brand's Antiquities " the derivation (?)> 

 of "witch" is thus given. "Witch is derived from 

 the Dutch 'witchelen,' which signifies whinnying and 

 neighing like a horse ; in a secondary sense, also, to 

 foretell and prophesy; because the Germans, as. 



LEAF OF WYCH ELM. 



