Notes Brockenhurst, Broomfield, Broxbourne 193 



after a few years' growth, being smothered by the 

 foliage above them. 



Radius of head 16 feet. 



A fine tree in Brockenhurst Churchyard, in the 

 New Forest, Hants, in 1793 had a girth of 15 feet, 

 and was upwards of 60 feet in height. 1 In 1892 

 the head was still unbroken and about the same 

 height, and with a spread of foliage about 70 yards 

 in circumference. At 3 feet from the ground it 

 girthed 1 8 feet, which gives about i foot in diameter 

 in one hundred years, a very slow rate of growth. 



Broomfield, Somersetshire. Through the kind- 

 ness of the Rev. Percy G. Bulstrode, I am enabled 

 to give the measurements of this tree, referred to 

 by Lord Malmesbury 2 in connection with that at 

 Hartington. The girth at the ground level is 

 (A.D. 1895) 24 feet 4 inches, and 16 feet at 3 feet. 

 The bole, which is only 4 feet in height, is hollow 

 and surrounded by young growth. This tree well 

 illustrates the deceptive character of the ground- 

 line measurement, and also shows that Lord 

 Malmesbury could not have had a very extensive 

 knowledge of trees of this kind. 



Broxbourne, Herts. In the churchyard, near the 

 west end of the church, is a fine tree consisting of 

 three main stems, united at the base, but two of 

 them diverging and leaning considerably. The 



1 Warner, Topog. Remarks, etc. 



2 Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, p. 496. 



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