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SYLVA BRITANNIC A. 



And of a wannish gray; the willow such. 



And poplar, that with silver lines his leaf. 



And ash far-stretching his umbrageous arm ; 



Of deeper green the elm ; and deeper still. 



Lord of the woods, the long-surviving oak, 



Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun — 



The maple, and the beech, of oily nuts 



Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve 



Diffusing odours : nor unnoted pass 



The sycamore, capricious in attire. 



Now green, now tawny, and ere autumn yet 



Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright." 



THE OAKS AT FREDVILLE. 



Nearly in front of the family mansion of John 

 Plumtre, Esq., in his park at Fredville, in the 

 parish of Nonnington, Kent, is a group of oaks 

 known by the names of Majesty, Stately, and 

 Beauty. Seldom are three trees so different from 

 each other in individual character, and so interest- 

 ing altogether, to be found in such near proximity. 

 Majesty, which, as its name denotes, is the largest, 

 is somewhat more than twenty-eight feet in circum- 

 ference, at eight feet from the ground, and contains 

 above fourteen hundred feet of timber. Stately, 

 the next in point of size, is a noble specimen of the 

 tall oak ; the stem going up straight and clean to 

 the height of seventy feet. The girth, at four feet 

 from the ground, is eighteen feet; and it contains 



