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in 1678, speaks of an Ilex growing in the king's privy 

 garden at Whitehall, as "a sickly imp of more than 

 fourscore years'" growth." Since that period, as a desirable 

 evergreen and ornamental tree, it has been planted very 

 generally in pleasure grounds, and in many instances has 

 attained a fine timber-like size ; such are some of those 

 mentioned by Bradly, as originally planted by Robert 

 Ball, Esq. of Minehead, Devonshire, a late account of 

 which is given in the eleventh vol. of the " Gardener's 

 Magazine," and the dimensions of three of the largest 

 are there stated. One of these was found to be eighty- 

 five feet high, with a trunk eleven feet in circumference ; 

 the second seventy feet high, the circumference of the 

 trunk fourteen feet ; and the third, a tree inferior in height 

 but of greater bulk, being fifty-five feet high, the circum- 

 ference of the trunk as much as twenty-two feet. In the 

 north of England, and even in Scotland, it thrives well, 

 as may be collected from the statistics of the Ilex con- 

 tained in the " Arboretum Britannicum." In Northum- 

 berland there are fine thriving specimens, of thirty and 

 forty years 1 growth, at Ho wick, the seat of the Earl 

 Grey, and two very fine trees at Falloden, the seat of 

 General Sir H. Grey, of one of which our figure is a 

 portrait ; this tree is about forty-five feet high, with a 

 trunk seven feet four inches in circumference at two feet 

 from the ground, and a diameter of head of thirty-six 

 feet, but it covered a much larger space previously to a 

 storm of wind a few years ago, which tore off one of its 

 main limbs. The other is not so high, but it covers a 

 much larger space of ground, the diameter of the spread 

 of the branches being upwards of seventy feet, the circum- 

 ference of the bole at one foot from the ground eleven 

 feet. Both of these trees are within the influence of the 



