App.II.~] LIST OF REMARKABLE TREES. 567 



F. IN. 



An ash near Deskford, in the county of Banff, 

 called St John's Tree, measures in girth (12) 24? 5* 



A few yards from Cessford Castle, in Rox- 

 burghshire, there is a venerable ash tree, which 

 measures at die base (13) 278 



An ash tree near Bonhill House, in Dum- 

 bartonshire, which is surrounded with a slop- 

 ing bank of earth, about three feet in height, 

 measured, in circumference, in September 1784, 

 at four feet above the general surface of the 

 ground (14) 34 1 



An ash tree in the church-yard of Kilmalie, 

 in Lochaber, burnt down during the troubles in 

 1746, was long considered as the largest and 

 most remarkable tree in Scotland. Its remains 

 were measured in October 1764, and, at the 

 ground, the circumference was no less than 

 (15) - 58 



THE ELM. 



On the estate of Castle- Huntly there are se- 

 veral fine Scots elms, which measure, at three 

 feet from the ground, about (16) 11 



At 



12) Statistical Account, vol. IV. p. 511. 



13) Id. vol. VIII. p. 56. 



14) Walker's Essays, p. 15. The proprietor has fitted up a room in 

 the inside of it with benches around, and glass windows. The diame- 

 ter of the room is eight feet fiv inches, and its roof is near eleven feet 

 in height. 



15) Walker's Essays, p. 17. This tree stood in a deep rich soil, on- 

 ly about thirty feet above the level of the sea, in Locliiel, with a small 

 rivulet running within a few paces of it. 



26) Statistical Account, vol. XIX. p. 4G4. 



