88 



CATALOGUE OF REMARKABLE TREES 



RAVENSWORTH. 



Field Maple (Acer campestre), 200 yards ET. by W. from Castle. 



Girth at a height of 5 feet, 9 feet 2 inches : spread of 



branches, 21 yards: height, 51 feet. 

 A handsome healthy tree ; bole ten feet, and then branches 

 into three. — (Mm/ 28, 1873, G. C. Atkinson.) 



Beech, 80 yards S. of the Maple, and the most northerly of a row 

 of Beeches standing !N". and S. Girth at a height of 5 

 feet, 15 feet 9 inches (but the stem bulges out, and this 

 girth is too much) : spread of branches, considerable : 

 height, 73 feet. 

 A handsome healthy tree, though clamped together with iron, 



and decaying. — (Ibid.) 



Cedar oe Lebanon. A noble group of old Cedars grows 270 

 yards "N. of Castle, of which four, in a line a few yards 

 apart (E. and W.), are very large. The girth of the most 

 E., at a height of 5 feet, is 12 feet 1 inch. That of the 

 next on its W., at a height of 5 feet, 12 feet 9 inches. 

 That of the most "W., at a height of 5 feet, 14 feet: spread 

 of branches, not great: height of this last tree, 51 feet. 

 The boles of all are short, varying from (the ~W. one which is) 



four feet to seven feet ; and then go off in heavy branches : a good 



deal decayed. — (Ibid.) 



Oak, 300 yards W.N.W. of Castle. Girth at a height of 5 feet, 

 15 feet 11 inches : spread of branches, not great: height, 

 66 feet. 

 One of the finest of several old Oaks growing on the slope 



from the Wood to the Castle. — (Ibid.) 



Oak, on level ground, 600 yards S. of Castle. Girth at a 

 height of 5 feet, 14 feet 8 inches : spread of branches, 

 small : height, 32 feet. 

 A ruin ; quite hollow and decaying. — (Ibid.) 



Oak (the most S. and finest of a group of nine or ten), 170 yards 

 S. of Castle. Girth at a height of 5 feet, 12 feet 8 inches : 

 spread of branches, 30 yards : height, 68 feet. 



