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THE ALDER. 



Fine specimens of the Alder grow in the Bishop 

 of Durham's Park at Bishop Auckland; but that 

 which is said to be the largest in England stands 

 near a rivulet at Haverland in Norfolk. It is 

 sixty-two feet high ; and the trunk, at one foot 

 from the ground, measures eleven feet seven inches 

 in circumference. Of this tree an excellent figure 

 is given in Grigor's " Eastern Arboretum." 



