Some Records of RemarJcahle Trees. 381 



Measurement of the circumference of the following trees growing at YpRter 



at 3 feet above the ground :— 











1854. 



1863. 



1880. 





ft. in. 



ft. in. 



ft. 



in. 



Oak 



13 10 



14 



14 



10 



Oak 



13 6 



14 2 



15 



6 



Beech 



11 2 



11 9 



12 



6 



Larch 



9 9 



11 8 



12 



4 



Larch 



9 6 



10 3 



11 



3 



Spanish Chestnut 



16 



16 8 



18 



2 



>> )> 



12 6 



13 3 



14 



9 



Scotch Fir 



9 6 



9 9 



10 



7 



Plane Tree 



14 5 



14 7 



15 



lit 



. Mmto, Cavers, and Wells, Boxbv/rghsMre. By Mr John Galloway. 



There are some very fine specimens of different sorts of trees on Minto 

 estate, the most prominent being the Larch, which was introduced to Minto 

 by the then Sir Gilbert Elliot in the year 1745. The following is the 

 measurement of the largest 1 foot from the ground : — 75 feet height of the bole, 

 by 9 feet 4 inches in circumference ; 72 feet bole by 11 feet ; 70 feet by 9 

 feet 6 inches ; 105 feet by 7 feet 10 inches : Silver Spruce, 120 feet bole by 

 10 feet 4linches ; 110 feet by 11 feet ; 80 feet by 12 feet. Ash, 75 feet bole 

 by 10 feet. The largest and oldest Ash tree on Minto was blown down in 

 December, 1878 ; but the stump, which is standing, measures 17 feet in cir- 

 cumference, 1 foot from the ground. 



There is an old Ash tree at Cavers, supposed to be 450 years old ; it is called 

 the Pope, owing to some of the Douglas family long ago having prophesied 

 this tree would stand as long as Popery reigned. At one foot from the 

 ground, it is 19 feet 9 inches in circumference ; at 5 feet, 16 feet 4 inches. 

 [This is possibly the Ash tree which Mr Hutchison— Trans. Highland Society, 

 vol. xii. 1880, 4th Ser., pp. 146-7— gives as a very handsome tree, 40 ft. high. 

 12 feet the length of the bole ; circumference of trunk at one foot, 19 feet 4 

 inches; at five feet, 15 feet 8 inches.] Sycamore tree 1 foot from the 

 ground, 14J feet in circumference, at 5 feet, 12 feet. [Mr Hutchison (p 169). 

 gives this tree as 56 feet high, 25 feet length of bole, 14 feet 2 inches at 1 foot, 

 and 11 feet 6 inches at 5 feet.] Beech, at one foot, 16 feet 8 inches, at 5 feet, 

 4U feet in circumference ; length of bole 42 feet. [Mr Hutchison (I.e. xiii. 

 1881, pp. 194-5), gives a Beech at Cavers as 53 feet high, length of bole 20 

 feet, circumference at 1 foot 17 feet 2 inches, at 5 feet 12 feet 3 inches.] 



There are some very fine trees at Wells, the seat of Sir William Elliot, 

 Bart. Oak, 13 feet 4 inches in circumference, 16 feet bole, 11^ feet by 24 

 feet bole. Beech, 9 feet 3 inches by 36 feet bole. Sycamore 10 feet by 24 

 feet bole. Spanish Chestnut, 13 feet in circumference, by 9 feet bole. 



The Great Oak at " The Oah" near Dalsfon, Cumberland, and other 

 Notes about Oahs. 

 After the Club Meeting at Gilsland in September, I went on to Parkend, 

 near Eose Castle, Cumberland, to spend a couple of days with my old friend^ 



