CHAP. II. 



BRITISH ISLANDS. 



43 



These articles belong to 15 orders, or natural groups, and in- 

 clude 34- trees and shrubs. 



A survey of the old trees at Fulham Palace was made by 

 Lysons in 1793, and again in 1809, and published in Lysons's 

 Environs of London ; by which it appears that several of the 

 trees mentioned by Sir William Watson were still in existence, 

 and in a growing state. The girts of the following trees, taken 

 at these two different periods, are here given from Lysons, as 

 taken at 3 ft. from the ground, to which we have added the 

 dimensions of such as are now (January, 1835) still in existence, 

 which we are enabled to do through the kindness of Dr. Blom- 

 field, the present bishop. We saw the trees ourselves in 

 October last, and found most of those below mentioned still in 

 a growing state, with some robinias and others in a state of 

 venerable decay. 



Ncgundo /raxinifblium, or ash-leaved 



maple, planted in 1688 

 ,/Tcer rubrum, scarlet-flowered maple 

 ./uglans nigra, black walnut tree 

 Quercus alba, white oak m - 



(iuercus 7 v lex, evergreen oak 

 Quercus Suber, cork tree 

 Cupressus sempervirens, upright cypress 

 Junfperus virginiana, Virginian red 



cedar - 



Pinus Pinaster, cluster pine 



" There were also," says Mr. Lysons, in 1793, " the Quercus 

 Suber, the Cytisus .Laburnum, the Robinza Pseud-acacia, and the 

 Pinus Cedrus, mentioned by Sir William Watson. The cedar 

 of Lebanon was first planted at Fulham in 1683 ; the largest, of 

 two measured in 1793, was only 7 feet 9 inches in girt." 

 " Near the porter's lodge," he continues, " are some limes of 

 great age, one of which measured, in 1793, 13 feet 3 inches in 

 girt. It is most probable that they were planted by Bishop 

 Compton about the year of the Revolution (1688), when the 

 fashion of planting avenues of limes was introduced into this 

 country from Holland, where they ornamented the Prince of 

 Orange's palaces." 



" Upon visiting the gardens at Fulham again in 1809," 

 Lysons observes, " I could not find the Cupressus semper- 

 virens, the Jiiniperus virginiana, or the A^cer rubrum. The 

 following trees still remain, and they will no doubt be re- 

 garded with veneration by the botanist, as the parent stocks 

 of their respective races in the kingdom. The ^cer Negundo, 

 the girt of which, at three feet from the ground, is now 



