Domestic Notices : — E?igla?id. 571 



Pigott, Esq. — Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens), 55 ft. high, 5 ft. 4 in. in 

 girt, and 42 ft. round the middle of the branches. Oak, 70 ft. high, and 28 ft. 

 6 in. in girt ; another, 7 1 ft. high, and 34 ft. 2 in. in girt ; another, 72 ft. high, and 

 23 ft. in girt; and several others of the same height. Elm (trimus campes- 

 tris), 95 ft. high, and 22 ft. 6 in. in girt; another, 94 ft. high, and 23 ft. in girt; 

 and another, 96 ft. high, and 23 ft. in girt. Ash (-JVaxinus excelsior), 60 ft. 

 high, and 17 ft. 6 in. in girt; another, 60 ft. high, and 15 ft. 6 in. in girt; a 

 great number about this size. — J. H. S. P. Brockley Hall, July 27, 1839. 



Large Trees at Tredegar, the Seat of Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., in Mon- 

 mouthshire, and in the adjoining Vicarage Garden. — The pollard oak on the 

 lawn at Tredegar is singular, from the extraordinarily tortuous form of its 

 branches. I regret to add that, though still standing, it has been shorn of 

 many of its lower limbs, and has thus lost much of its beauty. In the 

 vicarage garden at Bassalleg, which is divided from Tredegar Park by a sunk 

 fence only, stood some trees, which, compared with the usual size of others 

 of the same kinds, appeared to my limited knowledge to be so fine, that I 

 take the liberty of sending their dimensions. One, a Lombardy poplar, stood 

 in an open lawn ; and, being wreathed with roses and honeysuckles amongst 

 the branches which feathered to its base, in summer formed a beautiful feature 

 in a scene of no ordinary attraction. The circumference of its trunk is 11 ft. 

 6 in. There is also a second poplar, 3 in. larger in girt; a tulip tree, 7ft. 

 4 in.; and a Lucombe oak, 7 ft. 2 in. The tulip tree runs in a single stem 

 for 8 ft., and then branches into limbs, one of which measured 4 ft. 1 in., and 

 two others 6 ft. 3 in. each, in circumference. The Lucombe oak has a fine 

 straight trunk, and is yearly improving. The circumferences were taken at 

 between 4 ft. and 5 ft. from the ground. All the trees, I believe, were planted 

 at the same time, and are of about sixty years' growth. There are likewise 

 some fine sugar maples ; but I have no memorandum of their size. — Ellen 

 Anne Lei/son. 17. Pittville Parade, Cheltenham, May 11. 1839. 



Trees blown doiun at Capheaton, Northumberland, the Seat of Sir J. E. 

 Swinburne, Bart. — I believe I have, in my communication, p. ] 19., underrated 

 the age of the large trees, as they exceed a century by some years. The 

 storm of the 7th of January, 1839, has done me irreparable mischief, and 

 ravaged my woods sadly. I have lost nearly 600 trees, about 150 of them 

 large timber trees, some very fine old favourites. A larch, with 100 ft. of 

 measurable timber; an elm ditto, of 150ft.; a beech, 10ft. round, with im- 

 mense limbs ; and, in some places, two and three large trees standing together ; 

 and very large openings are made in the centre of the woods. 



I have, as well as my gardener, endeavoured to recollect if we had ever 

 observed the appearances in the silver fir which you allude to in your fourth 

 volume of the Arboretum, p. 2333. No such thing have I observed ; but the 

 stumps of all the resinous trees cut down are always longer in decaying than 

 those of other kinds, but nothing like growth or vegetation has been noticed. 

 Their duration I attribute to the resinous sap coming out of the bark when 

 cut, and forming a crust over it the first season, that prevents the wet going 

 down between the bark and the wood (but it never, here at least, extends 

 over the woody part), and prevents decay. I have often observed that, when 

 a branch has been cut off* any resinous tree, a considerable resinous exuda- 

 tion takes place, but no symptom of shoot or vegetation. What may occur 

 in a warm climate, I do not pretend to say. 



The torrents of rain that fell during the storm of the 7th saturated the grounds 

 so much as to greatly increase the loosening of the roots, and consequently 

 rendered the trees more liable to be blown down. This place is not on the 

 banks of the Tyne, but quite inland, eighteen miles north-west of Newcastle, 

 and about 600 ft. above the level of the sea. As an old planter, I have 

 observed that, in this part of England, trees generally grow best on a sloping 

 exposure to the north. — J. E. Swinburne. Capheaton, Jan. 23. 1839. 



Magnolia, grandijlora var. exoniensis. — Sketches of three remarkably fine 

 standard magnolias, of the Exmouth variety, have been sent us by J. W. 



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