82 LONDON TREES 



Waterlow Park, recumbent, spread 27 feet, stem 

 2| feet in diameter. 



Clissold Park, recumbent, propped and diseased, 

 stem 2 feet in diameter. 



At Charterhouse, in the City, there is quite a 

 number of Mulberry trees, but none remarkable for 

 size. They are evidently the same age, the largest 

 when measured last summer being 25 feet high, with 

 a girth of stem of 3 feet 5 inches at a yard from the 

 ground, and a branch spread 21 feet in diameter. 

 The trees growing in what is known as the Preacher 's 

 Court are of about equal height, 22 feet, and were 

 raised from cuttings taken from Milton's Mulberry 

 at Cambridge eighty years ago. In the grounds of 

 the Royal Botanic Society there is a Mulberry tree 

 of goodly proportions that has borne heavy crops of 

 fruit during recent years. It has a wide-spreading head 

 of healthy foliage measuring 36 feet, the trunk being 

 3 feet 9 inches in circumference. An accident seven 

 years ago greatly marred the appearance of the old 

 Mulberry tree standing in the grounds of the Victoria 

 Park Hospital, one of the few such trees remaining 

 in East London. The tree, according to local tradition, 

 stood at the entrance to the Palace of Bishop Bonner, 

 who was wont to sit under it and plan the holocausts 

 of heretical Protestants. It is 30 feet high and 30 feet 

 in branch spread, while the stem girths 4 feet 8 inches 

 at a yard from the ground. One of the main branches 

 having rotted through at the elbow, broke from the 

 trunk ; but with a little attention in the matter of 

 propping and cementing this tree should last for 

 years. 



Southwark once had a sapling from the Shake- 

 speare's Mulberry tree at Stratford-on-Avon presented 



