SECTION XII. 



Note I. Page 289. 



The Oak, the Ash, and the Elm are, in the dealer's phrase, usually 

 dignified by the name of Timber Trees ; and some add the Beech to 

 the number. Why this exclusive enumeration should be made I can 

 see no sufficient reason in the epithet, as various other species—such as 

 the Fir, the Larch, the Sycamore, the Chestnut, and many more — yield 

 also very valuable timber. The three kinds first mentioned, however, 

 are certainly most generally useful. 



The best practical arrangement of trees and shrubs is according to 

 their respective heights, and has been very well given by Marshall, in 

 his treatise on planting and rural ornament. His enumeration is as 

 follows ; First, tall trees, such as rise to sixty feet or upwards — e. g. 

 the Oak, Ash, Elm, Beech, Sycamore, Fir, &c. Secondly, middle 

 rank trees, or such as usually rise to between forty and sixty feet — as 

 the Maple, Cherry, Alder, Birch, &c. Thirdly, low trees, from thirty 

 to forty feet high — as the Hawthorn, Cypress, Scarlet Maple, &c. 

 Shrubs he likewise arranges in the same way, in four different classes, 

 all in a manner extremely useful to the planter. — See vol. ii. p. 438. 

 But for the purpose of transplanting at a large size, and producing 

 immediate shelter or ornament, every forest tree, and every sort of 

 shrub or underwood adapted to the climate, are proper, that have 

 hardiness to bear the operation, and recover from it with facility. 



Note II. Page 291. 



The great Cowthorpe Oak, near Wetherby in Yorkshire, is, or was in 

 1776, according to Dr Hunter, who resided at no great distance from it, 

 sixteen yards in girth at three feet from the surface, and six-and- 

 twenty close to the ground. Marsham, however, makes it somew^hat 

 less. — See Hunter's edit, of Evelyn's Sylva, vol. ii. p. 208. The 

 Bentley Oak, in Holt Forest, in 1759, measured thirty-four feet at seven 

 feet from the ground. The great Boddington Oak, which grew at Bod- 

 dington Manor farm, near the turnpike road betw^een Cheltenham and 



