Cupressus 1169 



Remarkable Trees 



Perhaps the largest tree^ that I know of in England grows on an open 

 hillside at Lamorran, on Lord Falmouth's property in Cornwall, and this in 1905 

 I found to be 86 ft. by i2|^ ft. At the same place in a wilderness, which was 

 once the garden of the late Hon. Rev. T. Boscawen, there are several trees almost 

 if not quite as tall, with boles 8 to 9 ft. in girth, clear of branches up to 

 about 20 ft. 



At Enys, the seat of J. D. Enys, Esq., in the same county, there is a tree 80 ft. 

 by II ft. 5 in., which he considered the finest in Cornwall; and at Carclew there is 

 another 84 ft. by ii|^ ft., which, however, has increased but little since 1891, when it 

 was reported under the name of C. Lambertiana as 82 ft. high, and then the largest 

 in England.^ At Luscombe Castle there is a fine tree which Mr. Seaborne 

 measured as 91 ft. by 14 ft. 2 in. in 1909. At Penrose, near Helston, a tree 

 planted thirty-five years previously measured^ in 1894 80 ft. in height and 19 ft. in 

 girth at 4 ft. from the ground, dividing above into six stems. 



At Beauport, Sir A. Lamb showed me in 1905 a number of fine trees varying 

 extremely in habit, of which Plate 296 shows one growing near his Araucaria grove, 

 which spreads very widely and branches near the ground. At 3 ft. it is no less than 

 1 7 ft. in girth and about 64 ft. high. Another in an open part of the park is about 

 65 ft. by 14 ft., and of such an extremely dense bushy habit that a litter of fox cubs 

 were bred in it at some distance from the ground. A third tree below the stables 

 has a narrow fastigiate habit, quite different from the others, and measures about 



70 ft. by 9^ ft. 



At Coolhurst near Horsham there is a fine timber-like tree about 70 ft. high by 

 only 5 ft. in girth. Sir H. Maxwell has sent us a photograph of a tree at Wake- 

 hurst Place, Haywards Heath, which measured in 1907 70 ft. high and 9 ft. 8 in. in 

 girth at 3 |[t. from the ground. 



At Brickendon Grange, Herts, which is 365 ft. above sea-level, with con- 

 siderable cold in winter, yet little spring frost, there are numerous trees in an avenue 

 averaging 65 ft. high and 5 ft. 2 in. in girth. Mr. Trotter, who presented a plank 

 to the museum at Cambridge, considers the timber excellent, being very durable 

 and strong, suitable for making wheelbarrows, carts, and rafters and beams in 

 buildings ; used for rails and posts in a fence, it has remained perfectly sound for 

 fifteen years. 



At Youngsbury, Ware, Herts, a tree planted in 1866 was 67 ft. by 8^ ft. in 1907. 

 At Cobham, Kent, a tree measured in 1906 71 ft. by 9 ft. At Wexham Place, 

 Stoke Poges, Bucks, there is a remarkable narrowly pyramidal tree, closely resembling 

 the fastigiate Mediterranean cypress in habit, which Mr. R. Woodward found to be 



71 ft. in height and 5 ft. in girth. 



At the Butlands, Burghley Park, Stamford, there is a fine specimen growing in 



1 Mr. H. Clinton-Baker made this tree 88 ft. by 13ft. in 1909. 

 "^ Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. xiv. 488 (1892). ^ Card. Chron. xvi. 658 (1894). 



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