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growing in St. John^s walks at Cambridge, and we are 

 indebted especially to the courtesy of Mr. B. H. Sanders, 

 Dr. Bateson, tbe Master of St. John's College, and other 

 gentlemen for investigating the subject. We learn that 

 several of the oldest trees in St. John's walks have lately 

 been blown down ; but there are other fine old Elms still 

 standing, which are, Mr. Sanders believes, actual remnants 

 of those referred to by Gilpin. — Ed. 



An old Elm, wliicli grew formei^ly in the grove 

 at Magdalen College in Oxford, was by some 

 accident disbarked entirely round. A malady of 

 tbis kind is generally reckoned fatal to all tbe 

 vegetable race. But tbis tree flourisbed after it 

 as well as any tree in tbe grove. Tbe probable 

 reasons of tbis uncommon appearance are given 

 us by tbe learned autbor of tbe Natural History 

 of Oxfordsbire in a long pbilosopbical inquiry 

 wbicb may be found in tbe 166tb page of tbat 

 work. I bave beard, also, but . I know not on 

 wbat autbority, of another disbarked Elm growing 

 at tbis time vigorously at Kensington. 



Tbe Oak, tbe Ash, and tbe Elm are commonly 

 dio-nified, in our English woods, as a distinct class, 

 by the title of timber trees. But tbe picturesque 

 eye scoi-ns the narrow conceptions of a timber- 



