SOILS FOR 



THE SYCAMORE. (Plane4rce in Scotland.) 



This tree is generally confidered as a native of 

 Britain. It will grow, and even become tim- 

 ber, in any kind of foil from a light fand to a 



tiily 



The Green Dale Oak is said to be 700 years old. Girth of 

 the trunk above arch, 35 feet ; height of the arch, 10 feet 



3 inches ; width of ditto, 6 feet 3 inches ; and height of 

 the tree, to the top of the live stump, 54? feet. 



The Porters are two very large trees, and are so called 

 from the circumstante of there formerly having been a gate 

 placed between them. No. 1. measures, in circumference, 

 at the ground, 38 feet ; at a yard high, 27 feet ; at 2 yards, 

 23 feet ; total height, 98 feet 6 inches ; and solidity, 848 

 feet ! No. 2. in girth, at the surface, 34? feet ; at one yard 

 high, 23 feet ; at 2 yards, 20 feet ; height 88 feet ; and so- 

 lidity, 744 feet. 



The Duke's Walking SticJc> in girth, at the ground, 21 feet ; 

 atone yard high, 14 feet; stem 70 feet 6 inches; total 

 height, 111 feet ; and solidity, 440 feet. 



The Oak anci Ash. Girth of both at the ground, 36 feet ; 

 of the oak, at one yard high, 18 feet ; at two yards, 15 feet 



4 inches ; and height 92 feet. The ash is comparatively 

 very small. It leaves the oak at a small distance above the 

 ground, and unites again at 8 or 9 feet high ; then branch- 

 es out, and towers along with it for some thirty or forty 

 feet. Taken together, they form a very various and un- 

 common picture. 



Of the famous Scots oak in the Torwood near Stirling, 

 generally called Wallace's Oak, no trace now remains, 



