Notes Tintern, Tisbury 251 



is one foot, and therefore betwixt sixty and seventy 

 years old. It has probably been dead about twelve 

 or fifteen years. From the base there spring 

 two circles of young trees, from 2 to 4 inches in 

 diameter, and about 10 to 12 feet high. These have 

 a combined girth of 15 feet. They are not far 

 distant from each other, and will probably, in fifty 

 or sixty years, have coalesced into a single trunk, 

 measuring 18 feet in girth or 6 feet in diameter, 

 and showing an apparent age of upwards of 430 

 years, instead of about 1 50. 



Two others, near the same place, and probably 

 about the same age, measure, the one (with an 

 unbroken lead) 5 feet 6 inches at the ground level, 

 the other (with the lead broken) 8 feet at the same 

 level. The latter has five large branches springing 

 from a foot above the ground. 



On the WyndclifT, above the moss house, is a 

 tree which has a girth of 8 feet 10 inches at the 

 base ; 9 feet 7 inches at 6 feet. The top is 

 broken at 10 feet. From this point three branches 

 spring, one of them having a diameter of i^ feet. 

 Another measures 15 feet 6 inches at the ground. 

 Most of the trees in this locality are much 

 damaged by galls (p. 70). 



Tisbury Yew. Sir T. Dick Lauder says : l * In 

 the churchyard of Tisbury, Wiltshire, there is now 

 standing, and in fine foliage, although the trunk 



1 Gilpin's edition, 1834. 



