7 inches at 6 feet. 
Q. pedunculata. 
Armin 25, 1857.) 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
The Grindstone Oak, near Farnham in Surrey, 
DFREY oe GONFBY who cies over with WILLA AM | was once an enormous tree. Its circumference 
the CONQUEROR aoran the ground is still 48 feet, and at 3 feet high 
33 
Sir Philip Sydney’ s Oak, at Penshurst, in Kent, 
ea 3 a het from the ground is 30 feet in circumfer- 
Lord DE L’Iste states that he has no doubt 
that ‘the date of this tree is anterior to the birth of 
Sir PHILIP SYDNEY 
The Merton Oak, in eee stands on the 
estate of Lord WALSINGHAM. the git Pre of 
The Bull Oak, in Wedgenock Park in War- 
wickshire, is a remarkable s ecimen. It measures 
at 1 foot above the ground 40 feet, and 6 feet 
from the und 37 feet in cireumference, The 
inside is quite decayed, and n on one 
side, cattle are generally “es hilm i in it. 
The Co 
the grou und the circumference at the wth n Yorkshire measured 
63 feet 2 inches. close the und 78 "feet in circumference, 
feet from the ign! 48 The 
The Winfarthing Oak, in ikeir is 70 feet in|and at 3 
circumference, the trunk te hollow, and the|di 
cavity large enough to ho “ at least 30 persons. 
This remar re said to have been called 
the “Old Onk S 
CONQUEROR. 
Bath Society (vol. x.), calculates that an aesae 
tree 47 feet in Pg eo ina be less 
1500 years old ; : nini ar the 
ory Oak, ‘rom “ts girthing $ 34 feet, to be the 
n inscription on a brass 
e bottom is 9 
will k Siia ved, does 
not agree with the statement made at the begin- 
ning of this article. 
The Wellbred Oak = Lapa Hill, near Pon- 
tefract, is sup 800 years old. Its height 
Bi 0 fee t, an ts trunk 33 feet in ciroumference. 
2 
a 
B Pr 
It is Q. peduncul ata. The trunk is quite hollow 
bag? open on one side; cattle often take shelter 
289 
dred and tifty-two a yards of ground. iis 
produce was as follow 
Feerr, 
Main trunk, at 10 feet long 450 
One Limb B a 472 
One Ditto 355 
One Ditto 235 
One Ditto 156 
One Ditto’ 113 
One Ditto 106 
Six smaller Ditto 413 
Dead Limbs of the size of Timber 126 
Total Quantity of Timber 2426 
Its conversion was—the main trunk cut into 
quarter boards and gt yl stuff ; the limbs, one 
upper piece stem for a un ship, one ditto 
guns, one rother Fes 74 guns, three lower fut- 
tocks each 100 guns, one progr coe 100 —_ 
one ditto 74 guns, one ditto er one floor 
timber 74 guns, one second gts 00 Pant and 
about 20 4 all of which were yee enough for 
the Na e heay was 3 inches thick, 
same age. a plate 
affixed to the Winfarthi ing Oak gives the following 
as its dimensions: ‘‘ This Oak in EN 
The Chapel Oak, of Allonville, — Yvetot, in 
France, measures ‘ust above the roots 35 feet in 
at the extremities of the roots is 70 feet, in | ciroumfere nce, and at 5 feet or 6 oe 26 feet; a 
the mi feet ; 1820.” Now “there can | little higher up it extends to a reater size, . The 
be no n, if the size of the rind is to be t w and quite hollow. Its lower part = 
any criterion of age, why the Winfi g n many years since transformed into a cha 
should not at least equal the Bentley Oak, an | carefully paved and wainscotted, and closed a 
if so it would be upwards of 700 years old a he | an iron a 
pes It is now a me shell—a mighty ruin| The oulande Oak, near Dourfront, is about 
bleached snowy W eet in circumference, The two Oaks of Ma ayior, 
Magog, to in the Canton of Calvados, are o great size 
0 feet in circum- 
These n have 
6 feet, 28 feet in ci noe 
height is 72 feet, oat = diameter of the weal i iow.. 
1 inch. 46 feet 6 mme in cir- | Oak in the Forest of Ceris own 
cumference at 1 "e from the ound and 30 feet. canner e name of the Pen ie: ata litt aise 
the same species, to the aes of a od iay T posed 
aring v ta to be 800 or r 900. years 
aey Salcey Forest Oak in ibet p tegia is | old. Ix Ai 1824 it e e 36 feet in circumference 
sed to be above 1500 years old; its trunk is just above the soil, and was about 55 feet high. 
y ecayed as to form a complete arch, which is The trunk is now hollow, and will hold 14 to 15 | 
14 rw 8 Akliy high and 29 feet in circumference | persons | 
is 33 feet 3 inches high, and | The 2 ancient Germans, history informs us, had | 
Sent 47 feet in circumference on the outside near Oak castles. 7 the hollow of one we read that a | 
ermit built cell and chapel; and of some 
Oaks of almost ineredible bulk, which EVELYN says 
in his time w ately standing i in Westphalia,” | 
one was 130 feet high, and reported to be 30 feet | 
in oe ; prac yielded 100 loads of timber, 
a third ‘‘ served both for a castle and a fort.” 
The Greendale Oak, at Welbeck in meg my ber 
has long been a celebrated tr In 1724 a 
this tree above the arch 
Westphalia, not far from the Castle of New York direct on Saturday t 
A width « of ditto about the middle 6 feet 3 "rage which is the foote to the neerest July—fare 307. terling ; average time 12 days. 
isan height to the top branch 54 feet. According bowe one hundred and thirtie foote d three The Collins steamers leave Liverpool 
Hunter’s hea about 1646 this Oak was 88 ph in te cet and menses in another place New York on Wednesday the 8th mee 22d of July 
fet high, with a t ee fee 1inch; bei t, made a e load. | inte Bike au. bi. stening. T are also 
e diameter of the head 81 1 feet Not irom this place there geet shathes Oke | steamers from G ntreal, Bolton Si 
The Lord's Oak in orio Park in 1646) pdt nna ards in thicknesse ; but not very hie.” New York. a 
girthed 4 inches, The Shire Okk, which | None of these patclarchal trees were however so| Montreal is 400 miles from New York, and the 
1s still standing, had then a head 90 feetin diameter Mardi as the Golynos (not Golonos) Oak, for time of ing by railway is 15 hours ; there are two 
extended into three oe rk, No one the ee authentic account of which we are | iais Be Bb Einn Poa Boston to 
go op e] fy ord by s. indebted to onn :— leaks the ape 334 a time 11 
xford, it is| «í This wonderful tree grew on the estate from | fare 7 dollars. Quebec is 168 miles from Montrea 
‘ a space of 16 yards on every | which it takes its name, about four miles from by railway, time 5 hours; and 180 by steamer, 
ide trom its trunk it once flung its ghs, and Newport, in the parish of Bassalleg, in Monmouth- | time 12 ho 2 From Montreal to 
under its magnificent pavilion could have sheltered | shire, It was pure late Tuomas Niagara Falls the distance is 415 miles by railway 
with ease 3000 men, In the r of 1788, N, Esq. (many years his Majesty’s Pur- | cid Toronto and H me 16 hours—faré 
magnificent ruin fell to the ground. It then ap- veyor of Plymouth Dockyard Dean Forest), | 12 dollars; or by Lake Ontario, 375 miles, time 
acre how yim | it r ps ae : in the year 1810, for 100 gn and was — 18 hours, 
was decayed, and i os converted by him ar. Fiv 
a hold upon the earth onl by Gin x three root- | men were each 20 days stripping and cutting it HE Great Exhibition in the Garden af 
mt none exceeded a oi gpl of oe = down; a pair of sawyers were constan orticultural Socie S a at vomi k i 
hanes on Gitrin states that employed 138 days in its conversion, The ex- | Well to state that y f ma ab pecans ie 
the Us sapling when ALFRED joy: anit yf pense of stripping, felling, and sawing, (exe Society should do so ¥ once, “oy e ie 
miversity, sive of superintending the conversion or hallage | Sought of at x a ot iii eee 
The Swilear Lawn Oak in Needwood Forest in [of any part of it), was 8273. It was felled on to tno hs a 
i visitors early — which strictly confined to 
near the Measures 34 feet in circumference |in separate parts, an es were erected fi ae Jecti tte of 
van et. stg ER ed to De 1000 the workmen to stand on to cut down the Fellows; for ay ee ke P 
states growing state. STRUTT | valuable limbs. Previous to being it was enced ’ ry 
the that that abont 1 1830 it measured at 6 feet from | divested of its — Sap was Placed as a Shall a ve passed ses — 
inches in circumferen: vent the tim ursting in falling. wok a iia pice ae Se 
at yenne ore, when measured at the same | The "at i ar f the tree was 9} feet E digester, VEGETABLE PATHOLOGY.—No, CLVII.  —— 
trom the ground, it girthed only 19 feet. d consequently no saw be fi ; : 
Sufolk 4 Id or Queen Eliza k in|enough to cut wn; two saws were th 
at the height of say 7 feet from the |brazed together. In cutti e 
hg more t 11 yards in circum- | through a iscov i 
tain » and could not be less than 500 or 600| ter, 6 feet from the butt, and 3 feet in a diame- | ©! 
states old. RKER, Heveningham trical dire the rind, roun an 
that ea is decidedly Q. — and, | timber was perf ` rings in its butt | “>: : 
sion aing to an makan Terit po - | being reckoned, it was discovered that this tree 
i it is now bitwent 1100. years old. | had n improving upwards of 400 years! and, 
the i as many of ja ek nane were dead, and 
1s pre 
little py a, a oentury p it had rg oo 
maturity. When standing it overspread four 
a, 
. ote pa 
| about 17} 
on Saturday 
y body bar 
When all its parts were brought to-market they 
produced poll ar 600,’ 
Surely such prodigious monuments of the power 
of Nature are as much worth eon as ancient 
instances of mere human handywo 
Oy rida Association for the Advance- 
f Science has announced its intention of 
holding its Eleventh fs Meeting at Montreal, 
Cana the week commencing the 12th of 
ext. This Association embraces in its 
n every r etl of Natural, Mathematical, and 
Phil Se Science, and counts among its members 
all th t distinguished scientific men of the 
No oe piee Far Continent, 
ittee of Montreal wishing to gi 
ng of the goeies ever Feld. 
in ‘inte have issu vita 
tions to a large number of the scientific men of the 
United Kin roy 
and of ang en eee 
ce | No part of 
merica ers more 
poigts of interest chad Canada, pavtioubariy’4 in its 
Geography, Ethnology, Geology, and Botany, and 
to these inducements we acorn that the Canadians 
will add a most arabe 
pre ass steamers betwee 
There is a line 
| Liverpool and M way of Quebec, whisk 
wi ake semi and probably weekl 
voyages p myi T a summer. The voyage 
occupies from ays, and the fares are 
EE stadii Steamers of the 
| Cunard tien leave Liverpool for Boston viá Halifa 
the 4th and 18th me ae 251. 
sterling ; average time of passage 12 days. Also for 
the 11th and 25th of 
. 
famo by 
-monthl 
