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shirej the tree shows a few buds, as at that time I have 

 seen others do iu various parts of the forest. Of course, 

 they are all nipped by the first approach of severe weather, 

 which, however, seldom happens in the warm south-west 

 coast till the new year/ (Page 110). During a recent 

 visit to the Cadenham Oak — which is still living — (in the 

 present year, 1879) we were satisfied, from inquiries we 

 made, as to the correctness of the statements respecting 

 its budding at Christmas ; though, when we saw it, just 

 putting on its spring foliage, it was, if anything, less for- 

 ward in leaf than the majority of the other Oaks in the 

 forest. Its trunk is now hollow, aud half of the shell is 

 gone. We took the girth of the half bole at three feet 

 from the ground and found it eight and a half feet. 

 Colonel Bsdaile, of Burley Manor, informs us that at 

 Burley is a tree called ' The Miracle Oak,' which, like 

 its congener at Cadenham, also buds at Christmas 

 time. — Ed. 



Anotter tree worth pointing out in New Forest, 

 is an immense Yew, wliicli stands in the churoli- 

 yard at Dibden. It is now, and probably Las 

 been during tlie course of the last century, in the 

 decline of life. But its hollow trunk still supports 

 three vast stems, and measures below them about 

 • thirty feet in circumference — a girth which perhaps 

 no other Yew Ti-ee iu England can exhibit. 



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