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makes a respectable figure. The circumference of 

 tlie largest of these trees is nine feet ten inches, 

 at four feet from the surface. There are many 

 noble Alders, also, in the park at Hagley. 



The Mole still, as when Gilpiu wrote, owes its beauty 

 largely to the Alders which fringe its banks. We referred 

 the passage from the text to the Eev. Samuel L. Warren, 

 the present Vicar of Esher, and have been assured, as 

 the result of painstaking inquiry courteously undertaken 

 for us, that it ' correctly represents the present condition 

 of the river in that particular.' The Rev. Robert Long, 

 the Vicar of Auckland St. Andrew, informs us that all the 

 old Alders in the Bishop's park have disappeared. He 

 adds, ' the stumps remain of some of them to bear witness 

 that they were giants, but their glory is departed.' — Ed. 



The Birch may have several varieties, with 

 which I am not acquainted. The most common 

 species of it in England are the Black and the 

 White. The former is a native of Canada, the 

 latter of Britain. Of the "White Birch there is a 

 very beautiful variety, sometimes called the Lady 

 Birch, or the "Weeping Birch. Its spray being 

 slenderer and longer than the common sort, forms 

 an elegant pensile foliage, like the Weeping 

 Willow, and, like it, is put in motion by the least 



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