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moderate age, and although it is not of very 

 quick growth, it arrives at a great bulk, and 

 endures perhaps as long as any tree known. 



In the church-yard of Aldworth, in Berk- 

 shire, is a yew-tree of prodigious bulk, the 

 trunk measuring nine yards in circumference 

 at upwards of four feet from the ground. 

 The shape is very regular, of an urn-like 

 form ; the branches spread to a considerable 

 distance, and rise to a great height. All re- 

 collection of its age is entirely lost. 



There is one of an extraordinary size at 

 Petersham : and another at Lord Newberry's, 

 in the old palace garden at Richmond, plant- 

 ed three days before the birth of Queen 

 Elizabeth. 



Mr. Lyson mentions one in the church- 

 yard at Totteridge, the girth of which, at 

 three feet from the ground, is twenty-six 

 feet : and another in Woodford churchyard, 

 which girths at the same height eleven feet 

 nine inches ; and at four feet and a half from 

 the ground, fourteen feet three inches. The 

 spread of its boughs forms a circumference of 

 about one hundred and eighty feet. 



Evelyn notices a yew-tree in the church- 

 yard of Crowhurst, in Surry, which was ten 

 yards in compass. " Another in Braburne 

 churchyard, not far from Scotshall, in Kent, 



