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CATALOGUE OF EEMAEKABLE TKEES 



sights on the longer side or edge of the triangle towards it until 

 the top of the tree be in an exact line with the sights; mark that 

 place, and measure the distance from it to a point perpendicu- 

 larly beneath the top (or part of tree of height equal to it) ; add 

 the height of the eye of the observer from the ground, and the 

 sum is the height of the tree. — Geo. C. Atkinson. 



CATALOGUE. 



The following list has been drawn up by Mr. G. C. Atkinson, at 

 the request of the Committee to whom was entrusted the work 

 of cataloguing and reporting on the remarkable trees of the dis- 

 trict. It embraces all the information collected up to the pre- 

 sent time, but the Committee hope that many additions may yet 

 be made and published in a future issue. 



Excellent photographs of several of the more interesting trees 

 have been taken, and it is hoped that the first prints may be 

 issued to subscribers at no very distant date. The Committee 

 wish especially to invite the attention of members of the Field 

 Club and Natural History Society to the subject, and to ask their 

 assistance both in collecting information, and in subscribing to 

 their publication. 



ALNWICK (HULNE ABBEY PARK). 



Oak in Filbert Haugh, about 100 yards S.W. from bridge. 

 Girth at a height of 1 foot 6 inches, 14 feet 7 inches : 

 spread of branches, considerable : height, trifling. 



Oak (the Trysting Tree) in "Wood Closes. Girth at a height of 

 3 feet, 24 feet 6 inches : spread of branches, inconsidera- 

 ble : height, 42 feet. 

 A very remarkable tree, of great age ; very hollow, and much 

 decayed, but grand and picturesque. 



Mr. Dickson, in his address to the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Club, as President in 1857, says of it : "I cannot even guess its 

 age ; it must have been a great tree in 1624, as at that time it- 

 gave its name to the wood in which it stood, as appears from an 

 old vellum plan of Alnwick Castle (tempore James 1st) as the 

 Trysting Tree Wood. Why called the Trysting Tree I do not 



