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they were set originally twenty-one feet 

 apart, and so continue to this day. The 

 largest is somewhat more sheltered than 

 many of them, which fully accounts for its 

 superiority of growth : if it had been closely 

 surrounded by other trees, it no doubt would 

 have been from sixty to seventy feet in height ; 

 the whole of the length of the stem is twenty 

 feet, the girth eighteen inches, which is equal 

 to forty-five feet of square timber ; reckoning 

 the same at three shillings and six pence per 

 foot, with the addition of two shillings and 

 six pence for top and bark, makes the tree 

 worth eight pounds. It is clear, from an 

 examination of these trees, that four hundred 

 of them would grow to this size, at half the 

 distance apart, seeing that there are as many 

 squares of ten feet six inches each, per acre ; 

 thus their value would be three thousand 

 two hundred pounds, in seventy-five years. 



It is to be lamented that Mr. Jesse did 

 not give full particulars of his tree, instead 

 of so brief a description ; as it unquestionably 



