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begin with beech till 1741, /and then by- 

 seed ; so that my largest is now at five 

 feet from the ground, 6 feet 3 inches in 

 girth, and with its head spreads a circle of 

 20 yards diameter. This tree was also 

 dug round, washed, &c,*' Stratton^ 24 

 Juli/, 1790. 



The circumference of trees planted by 

 myself at 1 foot from the ground (1790). 



The great oak in the Holt, which is 

 deemed by Mr. Marsham to be the biggest 

 in this island, at 7 feet from the ground, 

 measures in circumference 34 feet. It has 

 in old times lost several of its boughs, and 

 is tending to decay. Mr. Marsham; comr 

 putes, that at 14 feet length this oak con- 

 tains 1 ,000 feet of timber. 



