306 SYLVASr WINTER. 



.... The main trunk is thickly covered with 



Ivy.' 



From the Ash, let us revert to the Beech. The 

 Knole Park (Kent) Beech, mentioned by Mr. 

 Strutt in his ' Sylva Britannica,' measured, in 

 1834, twenty-four feet at three feet from the 

 ground, and at ten feet up, it was twenty-seven 

 feet. It rose to a height of 105 feet, and was 

 computed to contain 498 feet of solid timber; 

 and Sir T. D. Lauder speaks of one twenty-six 

 feet six inches at the surface of the ground, and 

 twenty feet at two feet high. Mr. Hunter men- 

 tions one at Taymouth, in Perthshire, which 

 girthed, ten years ago, twenty-seven feet at one 

 foot from the ground, the present girth, owing 

 to one of its great limbs being broken off since — 

 the limb having probably forked from near to 

 the ground — being twenty-four feet six inches, 

 and twenty- one feet at five feet up ; and another, 

 at Lawers, has a girth of twenty-one feet at 

 one foot from the ground. One of the finest 

 and most beautiful of Beeches in England is 

 the Queen Beech, at Mark Ash, in the New 

 Forest. 



