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of a tree, of only seventy years old, to be 

 twelve feet six inches ; and he copies from the 

 Selbourne Journal an account of a tree, the 

 first fourteen feet of which contained more than 

 one thousand feet of timber, it being thirty- 

 four feet in circumference. And he also 

 mentions that a tree, grown in Wales, and which 

 squared two thousand four hundred and twenty- 

 six feet, was sold, with all its parts, and realized 

 nearly six hundred pounds. All three of them 

 were of course oak trees. This corroborates 

 Evelyn most fully, and justifies the importance 

 which is attached to the subject in these pages. 

 It is most remarkable that Mr. Jesse merely 

 mentions these trees, and appears to pride 

 himself on doing it, in as few w ords as possible, 

 although there are many far less important 

 incidents related in his three volumes, which 

 might have been better omitted. The accu- 

 mulation of so much vegetable matter in so 

 short a time, as in the first of his trees, ex- 

 hibits, not only an interesting fact in natural 

 history, but also a very advantageous circum- 

 stance for the community to be aware of, there- 



