1538 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



some fine cherries, and the best of those now standing is about 90 ft. by 7 ft. 6 in. 1 

 A tree cut here contained 78 cubic feet of sound timber, some of the boards being 

 fully 2 ft. across and quite sound. At Walcot, Shropshire, there are some splendid 

 vigorous young cherry trees, one of which that I measured recently being about 

 90 ft. high and only 4 ft. 9 in. in girth. These may attain 100 ft. in height as 

 they are still growing. Plate 354 shows a wild cherry in Savernake Forest, with a 

 burry trunk, 12 ft. 7 in. in girth at four feet, and 10 ft. 9 in. at five feet from the 

 ground. 



In Gloucestershire there was a tree on the Earl of Harrowby's estate near 

 Campden, which, according to Loudon, measured 85 ft. by over 9 ft. I could not 

 find this tree when I visited Norton Court in 1906, but can well believe the 

 correctness of this measurement after seeing the fine development of ash, oak, and 

 chestnut at this place. On my own land, however, though the tree grows well up to 

 fifty or sixty years old, it does not attain these dimensions, one of 8 ft. in girth 

 being the largest I have. 



Probably one of the finest in the Chiltern Hills is a tree growing in Burke's 

 Grove, Butler's Court, Beaconsfield, which was accurately measured in 1909 by 

 Lord Grenfell and B. L. Majendie, Esq., R.N., as follows : total height, 97 ft. ; 

 height to the first branch, 67 ft. ; girth at five feet from the ground, 4 ft. 10 in. Mr. 

 Leslie Wood has seen a tree in a beech wood near High Wycombe, 95 ft. in height. 



At Camp Wood, The Coppice, Henley, where the beautiful whitebeam grows 

 that was figured in Vol. I. Plate 51, there is a fine tree, which measured in 1905, 74 

 ft. in height, by 9 ft. 10 in. in girth, at two feet from the ground, above which it divides 

 into two stems. In the adjoining Bolney Wood, two trees measured 79 ft. by 5 ft. 

 2 in., and 76 ft. by 4 ft. with stems clear of branches to forty feet, and rivalling in 

 height the beeches amidst which they are growing. 



In a wood near Riverhill, Kent, Mr. A. B. Jackson measured a tree, 70 ft. 

 by 8 ft. in 1908. At Sidmouth, Devonshire, Miss Woolward measured a tree, 

 62 ft. by 10 ft. in 1906. At Henham, Suffolk, there is a tree about 50 ft. high and 

 io ft. in girth, with branches which spread over an area eighty-two paces round. 



On Ashampstead Common, Berks, Dr. Watney showed me a very fine tree 

 which was in 1901 about 75 ft. by 8 ft., and was surrounded by quite a grove of 

 suckers from the roots. 



At Russells, near Watford, there is, in a thick plantation near the house, a tree 

 about 90 ft. by 9 ft. 8 in., of which the bark, standing up in high ridges, makes the 

 girth seem larger than it really is. The bole of this tree is clean for about 20 ft. 



At Appleby Hall, the seat of Lady St. Oswald, in north Lincolnshire, there 

 is a tree in the shrubbery which divides into three large stems at about seven feet 

 and measures about 65 ft. by 1 1 ft. 9 in. 



At Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, a very fine cherry growing in a wood 

 in 1907 measured 80 ft. by 6 ft. 10 in. with a bole about 50 ft. high, but judging 

 from the number of dead branches it is near its end. 



1 Mr. J. S. Elliott of Cranleigh informs me that he bought twenty cherry trees out of this wood containing 807 cubic ft. ; 

 the best ten of these averaged 57 cubic ft. each. 



