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in Braburne churchyard^ in Kent, sixty feet ; 

 and another, at Hedsor, in Buckinghamshire, 

 upwards of eighty feet in girth ! When, how- 

 ever, these prodigious trees shall have perish- 

 ed, it does not seem likely that there should 

 be a succession of them ; for, notwithstanding 

 the vast strength and durability of the timber, 

 the slowness of its growth discourages even 

 the most patient planter." 



How well do I remember," said Mrs. 

 Longhurst, my grandfather's yew-tree won- 

 ders, at Cliphurst House. There was a yew- 

 hedge, one hundred yards long, and, I sup- 

 pose, six feet thick, and about a man's height, 

 which was so smoothly shorn and so solid, that 

 I have seen lions, bears, dogs, and horses, 

 standing on the top of it, and apparently 

 ignorant that it was not the solid earth ! 



You are not more astonished," continued 



