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Mr. Selby also refers to these two trees at p. 481, and states 

 that they were each upwards of 9 feet 8 inches in girth at 2 feet 

 from the ground, and about 80 feet high ; but they hare grown 

 very much since 1842. 



FALLOWFIELD. 

 Sycamore. Girth at a height of 5 feet, 14 feet 3 inches : spread 

 of branches, 25 yards : height, 54 feet. 

 Do. Girth at a height of 5 feet, 12 feet 2 inches : spread 



of branches, 21 yards : height, 54 feet. 

 Do. Girth at a height of 5 feet, 1 2 feet : spread of branches, 



24 yards : height 65 feet. 

 The three best of nine very fine ones, in a close E. of stack- 

 yard. Above two hundred years old. — {October 15, 1872, H. 

 Weddle, agent to Sir Edward BlacTcett, Bart.) 



FELLING HALL, GATESHEAD. 



Mulberry, in the middle of a field, on E. of the old residence of 

 the Brandlings, now a public house called " The Mul- 

 berry." Girth at a height of 4 feet, 5 feet: spread of 

 branches, trifling: height, 12 feet. 

 Suffocated by smoke and chemicals ; has a branch on the X. 

 side, which is still vigorous. It has not fruited for many years. I 

 asked the maid of the inn if she could tell me its age. She said 

 "BTo, but they once hanged a monk upon it." — [November 18, 

 1872, G. C. Atkinson.) 



" James the First in 1605 recommended the cultivation of silk- 

 worms, and offered packets of seeds of the Mulberry to all who 

 would sow them. No doubt this rendered the tree fashionable, 

 as there is scarcely an old-fashioned garden without one. They 

 were introduced into England about 1548." — Loudon's Arboretum, 

 Vol. III. p. 1344. 



Of course the " old-fashioned gardens" above alluded, to were 

 chiefly south country gardens; but in our district there are at 

 least four which have Mulberry trees apparently of that date. 

 viz. : Felling, Axwell Park, Bywell, and Saltwell Side. 



FENHAM. 



Cedar (the largest and E. of two), 250 yards E.N.E. from second 



