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roots, is 58 ft. high, aiid contains 1668 ft. of solid timber. Magog is more 

 imposing in dimensions, measuring 54 ft. 4 in. in girt at the ground, and 

 31ft. Sin. at 3ft. from the ground; height 49ft.: its solid contents are 

 912 ft. 10 in. {Struit,p.50.) Our correspondent Mr. Monro, late of the Brechin 

 Nursery, but now the Marquess's forester, informs us that the trees are in 

 good health, and that they are of the kind Quercus i^obur pedunculata. 



The Salcey Forest Oak, Earl of Euston. Circumference at the bottom 

 46 ft. 10 in. ; at one yard, 39 ft. 10 in. Circumference within the trunk, near 

 the ground, 29 ft., and at one j^ard, 24 ft. 7in.j height within the hollow 

 14 ft. Sin.; height of the tree itself 39 ft. Calculated to be 1500 years old. 

 {Id., p. 18.) Queries as above. 



Nottinghamshire. — The Greendale Oak, in the Park of Welbeck, His 

 Grace the Duke of Portland, is 35 ft. in circumference; height to the top 

 branch 54 ft. {Id., p. 39.) Queries as above. 



Oxfordshire. — The Wootton Oak, at Wootton under Bern Wood, the Duke 

 of Buckingham. Height 90 ft.; diameter of the head 150 ft.; of the trunk, at 



1 ft. from the ground, 8ift., and at 12 ft., 5 ft. (7c?., p. 10.) Queries as above. 



Elms, at Mongewell, Bishop of Durham. The principal tree among them 

 is 79 ft. in height ; 14 ft. in girt, at 3 ft. from the ground ; and the diameter 

 of the trunk is 65 ft. (7c?., p. 65.) Qwrn^^ as above. We saw these trees 

 in 1833, and they were then in good health ; but we have known elms about 

 London, apparently as vigorous as those about Mongewell, which have died 

 during the last winter. 



Joe Pullen's Elm, or, as it is commonly called, Joe Pullen's Tree, stands 

 on the top of Headington Hill, about half a mile from Oxford. It was 

 the favourite tree of Josiah PuUen, Vice-President of Magdalen Hall, who 

 died in 1814. {Memorials of Oxford, No. xxxiii. p. 13.) Mr. Baxter, the 

 curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden, has kindly informed us that this tree, 

 in Sept. 1836, is about 80ft. high; the diameter of the trunk 6ft., and of 

 the head 55 ft. ; and that it is in a state of vigorous growth. 



The yew in Iffley Churchyard is 22 ft. high ; the girt of the trunk, at 



2 ft. from the ground, 20 ft. ; and the diameter of the head 25 ft. The trunk 

 is now little more than a shell, with an opening 4 ft. square on the east side. 

 — W. Baxter. Oxford, Oct. 3. 1836. 



Shropshire. — The Shelton Oak, known by the appellation of " Owen 

 Glendower's Observatory," stands on the road side, about one mile and a half 

 from Shrewsbury. The cavity of the trunk is capable of holding at least 

 half a score of persons. (Slrutt, p. 42.) Queries as above. Mr. Dovaston has 

 promised us a drawing and description of this tree. 



Staffordshire. — The Squitch Bank Oak, in Bagot's Park, Lord Bagot, is 

 43ft. in circumference at the roots; and at 5 ft. from the ground, 21 ft. 9 in. 

 The butt contains 660 cubic feet of timber. Height 61 ft. (Id., p. 14.) 

 Queries as above. 



The Beggar's Oak, in Bagot's Park, is 20 ft. in circumference at 5 ft. from 

 the ground: the diameter of the head is 148 ft. It contains 877 cubic feet 

 of timber, which, together with the bark, would, in 1812, have produced 

 202/. 14*. 9d. (Id., p. 16.) Queries as above. 



The Swilcar Lawn Oak, in Needwood Forest, the property of Govern- 

 ment, is above 600 years old, and 21ft. in girt, at 6 ft. from the ground. 

 (7f/., p. 24.) Queries as above. We have a sketch of this tree, which we 

 took in Aug. 1806 ; which, as compared with Mr. Strutt's engraving, shows 

 considerable decay in the branches which compose the head. We were not, at 

 the time that we saw it, aware of the difference between Q. R. pedunculata 

 and Q. R. sessiliflora. 



The Tutbury Wych Elm is 50 ft. high ; the circumference of the trunk, at 

 5 ft., is 16 ft. 9 in., and the diameter of the head is 90 ft. (Id., p. 67.) Queues 

 as above. 



The wych elm, at Bagot's Mill, Lord Bagot, is more distinguished by its 

 beauty than its size. (Id,, p. 68.) Queries as above. 



