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Tacts relating to the annual Increase 



ference of a" tree at a given height, and note it in ruled columns : but let a 

 tree be girted several times, and it each time will vary, some much, and some 

 little. Either the string does not pass in a plane at right angles with the tree, 

 as it should, but makes the imaginary section more or less elliptical ; or else 

 it passes over different corrugations of the bark ; or meets with different tufts 

 of lichen or moss, which should be scraped off. The heaving of the roots, too, 

 raises the earth, and may cause the height of measuring apparently to vary. I 

 have felt some difficulty, too, in describing the situation of the trees, where 

 there are so many ; and, mayhap, I may be indulged in now and then using the 

 tree's fancy-name : for, be it known, it has long been the custom here to name 

 trees after friends, living or dead, or to departed worth or genius : a soothing 

 reminiscence to the spirits, peopling the memory with pleasing hamadryads. 

 The necessity of some notes after the schedule arises from each tree demand- 

 ing an explanation as to its circumstances, especially with regard to situation ; 

 for, however essential are all the skyey influences of air, which cannot be kept 

 from a tree, light is the grand and indispensable agent of vegetation. A tree 

 deprived of this will soon sicken, and so die. I have very repeatedly seen, 

 when a tree has been cut down near the edge of a thick wood, having the 

 boughs all on the light side, the annual rings, instead of being concentric, have 

 gone off round the place of the pith in vast parabolic curves, like the orbit of 

 a comet on a planetary diagram ; the layers being exactly equally numerous 

 on both sides, but vastly wider on the side of the light. Two trees of equal 

 organisation, were it possible, and in equal soils, the one incommoded, and 

 the other not, would, in a very few years, tell utterly distant on the scale of 

 growth ; though a tree may be too much exposed, and I have occasionally 

 seen even a sycamore show a weather side to the storm. The age of these 

 trees I can tell with tolerable accuracy ; as my poor father (poor indeed, but 

 laborious, intellectual, and benevolent) kept a register of the trees he raised 

 and planted on his little estate, scarcely 100 acres, and now adorned with 

 hedgerow timber worth many thousand pounds. He loved them as children, 

 and to me for life they shall be as brothers. 



Cedrus Libani, Largest cedar of Lebanon, near south entrance 

 Xarix europEe^a, Wood's larch, near south entrance 

 Quercus pedunculata. Broad oak, middle of great orchard - 

 P6pulus alba, Abele, Hermitage Walk - - - 



Populus alba, Abele, near pool. Mount Orchard - 

 Populus alba, corner abele, over Holyhead road 

 Qu^rcus pedunculata. Maiden oak, near old house, Felton 



Village - - - . . - 



J'uglans nigra. Great hickory, near old house, Felton Village 

 V Imus montana, Wych elm, near ditto . . - 



JClglans nigra, Hickory, near ditto . - - 



jPraxinus excelsior. Ash, east of old house, Felton Village - 

 Taxus bacc&ta, Weeping yew tree, near pump 

 ?7'lraus montana, Wych elm, near Old Font 

 Fraxinus excelsior. Great ash, Twyford Orchard 

 Fraxinus excelsior. Small tall ash, lower down ditto - - 

 JCiglans regia, Great walnut, ditto ... 



Quercus pedunculata. Great oak, west side ditto 

 Quercus pedunculata, Young fairy oak, Fairyland 

 Fagus sylvatica i., F^gus Tityr£e''n!, Virgil's Beech - 

 Populus monillfera, Canada poplar, Mount Orchard 

 Quercus pedunculata, Oak, near and north of Bewick's Oak 

 Qu^rcus pedunculata, next to ditto, westward 

 Su^rcus pedunculata, next to ditto, west - - 

 i^inus sylvestris, Scotch pine, front of cider mill 

 7,arix europae,''a. Larch, west of Pan's Mount 

 yi'^bies Picea, Silver fir, near Shenstone's Urn 

 Fagus sylvatica purpiirea. Purple beech, between the Aphor. 



nousli pines . - - . . 



Quercus i^lex. Ilex, front of the house - - - 



SSlix babyl(5nica. Weeping willow, north of sun-dial 

 Quercus pedunculSta, Roscoe's oak - - - 



J7'lmus campestris. Wood's elm ... 



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