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computed to contain 500 cubic feet of timber; the bole is very 

 magnificent, tapering very little for 55 feet : the spread is 

 trifling. 



From a framed description in the steward's office, dated Dec, 

 1800, the girth, at 7 feet from ground, was 13 feet 4 inches ; in 

 1808, the girth at 7 feet was 13 feet 8 inches; now, in June, 

 1874, the girth at 7 feet is 14 feet 9 inches. 



Scotch Fie. A fine tree, about 100 yards W. from House and 

 20 E. of Kiver, is 8 feet 10 inches in girth and 93 feet 

 high. Fine and healthy. 



Cedar. Two fine ones grow close to S.E. corner of the House. 

 — (June 1, 1874, G. C. Atkinson.) 



BIRTLEY WHITE HOUSE (NEAR CHESTER-LE-STREET). 



Common Thorn. A fine Thorn tree grows about 20 yards S.E. of 

 the House on the same level. Its girth, at 1 foot from 

 the ground, is 6 feet 7 inches, though that is partially 

 due to the spread of the branches, which commences soon 

 after leaving the ground ; these are five in number, pro- 

 jecting evenly and symmetrically, and forming a very 

 handsome healthy tree. — (June 2, 1874, G. C. Atkinson.) 



PLESSEY (NEAR MORPETH). 



Lime. In a field NT.E. of the old Hall, in a line of 30 yards long, 

 running N. and S., the S. end being close to the House, 

 is a row of fine Limes. The second from the House is 

 8 feet 5 inches in girth. They are all healthy trees. 

 There are also four very fine Lime trees about 150 yards 

 to S.S.W. of the House; the nearest, about 150 yards 

 from it, is 10 feet 6 inches in girth: bole, 8 feet, and 

 then spreading, round-topped head : height, 53 feet : 

 spread, 11 yards; another, 60 yards S. of last, is 12 feet 

 8 inches in girth, but rather flattened in the stem, and 

 distorted : bole, 8 feet, and then a tangle of small closely- 

 growing branches: height, not great. — (June 19, 1874, 

 G. C. Atkinson.) 



