292 SYLVAN WIKMU. 



Rev, Willougliby J. B. Rooke, the vicar of Little 

 Wymondley — whicli is the ' Wimley ' referred to 

 by Grilpin — informed us in 1879 that though the 

 girth of this tree, which was then only a ruin, 

 could not easily be taken, yet that the line re- 

 mained where one could trace the circumference ; 

 that six or seven years before, he had actually 

 been able to measure the circumference, and then 

 made it between fourteen and fifteen yards ! At 

 Dupplin, in Perthshire, Mr, Hunter mentions a 

 Chestnut which girths twenty-three and a half 

 feet at one foot, and twenty feet at five feet from 

 the ground. 



We must not omit Gilpin's account of famous 

 Limes. He says, — 'At Niestadt, in the Duchy 

 of Wurtemberg, stood a Lime which was for 

 many ages so remarkable that the city fre- 

 quently took its denomination from it, being 

 often called Niestadt an der grossen Linden, 

 or Niestadt near the Great Lime. Scarce any 

 person passed near Niestadt without visiting 

 this tree, and many princes and great men did 

 honour to it by building obelisks, columns, and 

 monuments of various kinds around it, engraved 



