CELEBRATED TEEES. 201 



Queen Elizabeth's day as to furnish space enough for the 

 Maiden Queen to ensconce herself within its shell. — Ed. 



After celebrating tlie grandeur of tliese sons of 

 the forest, I sliould wisli to introduce, in due 

 subordination, two or three celebrated fruit trees. 



In the Deanery Garden at Winchester stood 

 lately (so lately as the year 1757) an ancient Fig 

 Tree. Through a succession of many deans it had 

 been cased up, and shielded from winds and frost. 

 The wall to which it was nailed, was adorned 

 with various inscriptions in Hebrew, Greek, and 

 Latin, alluding to such passages of the sacred 

 writings as do honour to the Pig Tree. After 

 having been presented with several texts of 

 Scripture, the reader was informed, by way of 

 climax, that in the year 1623, King James I. tasted 

 of the fruit of this Fig Tree with great pleasure. 



At Lambeth, likewise, are two celebrated Pig 

 Trees, which, on good grounds, are supposed to 

 have been planted by Cardinal Pole. They are 

 immense trees of the kind, covering a space of 

 vvall fifty feet in height, and forty in breadth. 

 The circumference of the stem of one of them is 

 twenty-eight inches, and of the other twenty-one. 



