32 SPRUCE PIR. 



kind are some majestic ones in Sir Henry 

 Metcter's, Bart., park, at Ashley, Walton- 

 on-Thames, wherein there is a heronry. The 

 most perfect tree, though not the largest, that 

 I have met with is growing in the Earl of 

 Eoseberry's park, at Bixley Hall, Norfolk, 

 beautifally straight, — still more beautiful from 

 its smooth, bright cinnamon bark, — and evi- 

 dently containing a great many feet of timber 

 in it ; and I should prefer felling such while 

 the sap was active. 



SPEUCE ME. 



I should not venture to plant this species 

 of the fir tribe unless I could give it, in such 

 a climate as ours, a good situation as to soil, 

 and a southerly or easterly aspect. It was 

 planted extensively on some parts of the Taxal 

 plantations, and flourished healthy and lux- 

 uriant among oaks on these aspects during 

 the seventeen years of my residence there, 

 about the close of which these evergreens 



