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esteemed ; we differ in opinion, and think they generally 

 bear the appearance and aspect of unhealthy trees. 3rd. 

 The Purple-leaved variety, raised in Jersey in 1828 ; this 

 we have not seen, but hear it spoken of as likely to prove 

 a highly ornamental tree. Other varieties, as the Out-leaved 

 and Blunt-leaved Sycamores, are to be found in the nurse- 

 ries, but we deem them scarce worthy of a place in collec- 

 tions. 



Our limits will not permit us to give a list of the largest 

 and finest Sycamores in Britain ; but as this has already 

 in a great measure been supplied by Sir T. D. Lauder, in 

 his edition of Gilpin, and by Mr. Loudon, in the "Arbore- 

 tum Britannicum," we the less regret it. We may add to 

 those already recorded, a very noble spreading Sycamore 

 in Mitford Park, near Morpeth, Northumberland, of which 

 our figure is a portrait. This tree has a trunk eleven feet 

 in length before the first great ramifications, measuring, 

 near to the ground, twenty-two feet in circumference, and 

 sixteen feet a little below the branches ; it contains three 

 hundred and twenty-seven feet of timber. At Twizell 

 the Sycamore, twenty-five years planted, is thirty-five feet 

 high and twelve inches in diameter. 



