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plane-tree in this country ; but that he was not 

 the first we have already shown from Turner. 

 Evelyn says, " The introduction of this true 

 plane among us is, perhaps, due to the great 

 Lord Chancellor Bacon, who planted those 

 (still flourishing ones) at Verulam ; as to 

 mine, I owe it to that honourable gentleman, 

 the late Sir George Crook, of Oxfordshire, 

 from whose bounty I received an hopeful 

 plant now growing in my Villa." 



Goodwood Park in Sussex has long been 

 celebrated for containing one of the finest 

 oriental plane-trees in Europe, excepting 

 perhaps those in the vicinity of Constan- 

 tinople. 



Miller notices that there were very few 

 large oriental plane-trees to be seen in this 

 country ; which he thinks might be owing to 

 the great esteem persons of the last age had 

 for the lime-tree, which being much easier 

 to propagate, and of quicker growth during 

 the first three or four years, became more 

 fashionable for avenues and shady walks near 

 habitations. As the stately avenues have 

 now nearly disappeared, we may perhaps see 

 this celebrated tree of the ancients become 

 fashionable again in our plantations, for al- 

 though it is late in putting forth its leaves, 

 and sheds them again early in the autumn, 



