Chestnuts^ Beeches, S)-c., in Great Britain. 585 



The plane tree (Platanus) at Lee Court, near Blackheath, is 65 ft. high ; 

 the circumference of the trunk, at 6 ft. from the ground, lift.; and the cubic 

 contents 300 ft. (Stnitt, p. 112.) Queries as above. 



Evelyn, speaking of a visit to his " good neighbour " Mr. Bohun, at his 

 elegant villa and garden at Lee, Sept. 16. 1683, says, " He showed me the 

 zinnar tree, or platanus ; and told me that, since they had planted this kind 

 of tree about the city of Ispahan, in Persia, the plague, which formerly 

 much infested the place, had exceedingly abated of its mortal effects, and 

 rendered it very healthy." (Evelyn's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 525.) " Lee Court 

 remains at present much in the state in which it was during Evelyn's time ; 

 and the idea of this plane tree having been examined by him with curiosity 

 and interest, as one of the first introduced into this country, is sufficient to 

 give it value in the eyes of all who are acquainted with his admirable genius 

 and virtues, independent of the attraction which it may boast in its own 

 beauty." (Strutt's Si/l. Brit., p. 113.) 



Lincolnshire. — The horsechestnut, at Burleigh, the Marquess of Exeter, 

 is in height 60 ft. ; the circumference of the trunk, at 4 ft. from the ground, 

 is 10 ft., and the diameter of head 61 ft. (Id., p. 88.) Queries as above. 



Middlesex. — The Chandos Oak, at Michendon House, at Southgate, the 

 Duke of Buckingham, is 18 ft. in circumference at 1 ft. from the ground ; and 

 at 3 ft., 13 ft. 9in. : the height of the stem to the branches is 8 ft. It is 

 60 ft. high, and the diameter of the head is 118 ft. {Id., p. 12.) Queries as 

 above. 



The Harlington Yew. — In the Gentleman's Magazine for May, 1808, 

 p. 385., there is a print of Harlington Church, Middlesex; on the left hand 

 side of which is represented a part of the old yew tree, somewhat altered in 

 shape since the print of 1729, of which we gave a fig. in p. 246. The tops 

 of some other trees, probably yews also, are seen to rise above the roof of 

 the church. These, if we may judge from one which is seen at the north-west 

 corner of the building, were kept cut somewhat after the same fashion as the 

 large one, their tops only being left to take their natural growth. — W. Baxter. 

 Oxford Botanic Gardeii, Oct. 3. 1836. 



The Great Cedar, at Hammersmith, is 59ft. high; the diameter of the 

 trunk 5i ft., and of the head 80 ft. (Struit, p. 187.) We saw this cedar on 

 Aug. 11., soon after the house to which it belonged was pulled down, and the 

 ground sold in lots for building on. The tree either is, or doubtless will be, 

 felled ; but we have preserved a figure of it in the Arboretum Britannicum. 



The two cedars in the Chelsea Botanic Garden are from 50 ft. to 60 ft. 

 high, with trunks 12 ft. in circumference, and the diameter of the head 40 ft. 



The Enfield Cedar, Manor House, Enfield, Dr. May, is said to have been 

 raised from a seed brought from Mount Libanns, by a pupil of Dr. Uvedale, 

 who was the founder of the school, and who died at Enfield in 1722. In 

 1821, it was 64ft. high; the circumference of the trunk, at 1ft. from the 

 ground, was 17 ft. ; and it contained 548 cubic feet of timber, exclusive of 

 the branches. {Strutt, p. 105.) We sent, in Nov., 1835, to get the dimensions 

 of this tree, which at that time was 64 ft. high, and the trunk measured 16 ft. 

 in circumference at 3 ft. from the ground. The tree was beginning to decay, 

 and had lost a large branch. ( See Arb. Brit., p. 48.) 



The yew tree at Ankerwyke, J. Blagrove, Esq., is 27 ft. in girt at 3 ft. 

 from the ground. At 8 ft. high, five large branches shoot out horizontally, 

 which average 5| ft. in girt. ((S/r^tf/f, p. 118.) Queries as ahove. 



The Great Beech in Windsor Forest, in the neighbourhood of Sunninghill, 

 presents the remains of surpassing grandeur, and is evidently of great an- 

 tiquity. {Id., p. 74.) Queries as above. 



Norfolk. The Winfarthing Old Oak. — In 1820, this tree measured, at 

 the extremity of the roots, 70 ft. in cu-cumference ; in the middle of the 

 trunk, about 6 ft. from the ground, 40 ft. in circumference. Mr. Samuel 

 Taylor, who sent us a beautiful portrait of this oak, from which fig. 106., to 

 the scale of 1 in, to 12 ft., has been engraved, accompanied the drawing by the 



