524 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 
At Wollaton Hall, near Nottingham, the property of Lord Middleton, there is a 
tree 43 feet high which at 5 feet girths 7 feet 10 inches, and at 10 feet, where it 
forks, 8 feet. It has a spread of not less than 78 feet, which for this tree is 
very unusual (Plate 147). It is perhaps the most symmetrical of its kind that 
I have seen anywhere. In the Botanic Gardens at Oxford and Kew there are 
fair-sized specimens. 
In Scotland and Ireland we know of no trees of great size, and none were 
recorded by Loudon; but at Glasnevin there is one about 35 feet in height, which 
divides into three stems close to the ground, and has very pendent wide-spreading 
branches. 
TIMBER 
Little or nothing is known of the timber in England, but a wood has been 
imported to France under the name of “ Noisetier,” which I believe to belong to 
this species, and which, as exhibited by M. Hollande of Paris, is very handsome. I 
purchased some very handsome veneer from Mr. Witt of London, which he told me 
had come to him direct from Constantinople, and which I believe was cut from the 
root of C. Colurna. Two good-sized logs of this tree were in the collection of 
Servian timbers shown at the Balkan States Exhibition in London in 1907; one of 
them is now in the Kew Museum. Gamble? says that in the Himalaya it is a well- 
grained timber, which does not warp, of a pinkish-white colour, and often shows a 
fine shining grain resembling that of bird’s-eye maple. (EL. J. B.} 
1 Man. Indian Timbers, 684 (1902). 
