CHAP. II. 



BRITISH ISLANDS. 



43 



These articles belong to 15 orders, or natural groups, and in- 

 clude 34 trees and shrubs. 



A survey of the old trees at Fulham Palace was made by 

 Lysons in 1793, and again in 1809, and published in Lysons's 

 Environs qf London; by which it appears that several of the 

 trees mentioned by Sir William Watson were still in existence, 

 and in a growing state. The girts of the following trees, taken 

 at these two different periods, are here given from Lysons, as 

 taken at 3 ft. from the ground, to which we have added the 

 dimensions of such as are now (January, 1835) still in existence, 

 which we are enabled to do through the kindness of Dr. Blom- 

 field, the present bishop. We saw the trees ourselves in 

 October last, and found most of those below mentioned still in 

 a growing state, with some robinias and others in a state of 

 venerable decay. 





Girt in 

 1793. 



Girt in 

 ■1809. 



Girt in 

 1835. 



Computed 

 Height in 

 1793 & 1835. 





ft.' 



in. 



ft. 



in. 



ft. 



in. 



feet. 



Negundo /raxinifolium, or ash-leaved 

















maple, planted in 1688 

 J^cer riibrum, scarlet-flowered maple 



6 



4 



7 









45 



4 



3 











40 



Juglans nigra, black walnut tree 

 Quercus alba, white oak 



11 



2 



11 





14 



6 



70 



7 



11 



8 



n 



11 



5 



70 



Quercus /Mex, evergreen oak 



8 



0 



9 



1 



10 



3 



50 



Quercus (Suber, cork tree 







8 



4 



9 



5 



50 



Cupressus sempervirens, upright cypress 



2 



3 











30 



Juniperus virginiana, Virginian red 

















cedar - 



2 



5 











20 



Pinus Pinaster, cluster pine 



10 



0 



10 



1 



11 



10 



80 



" There were also," says Mr. Lysons, in 1Y93, " the Quercus 

 5'iaber, the Cytisus iaburnum, the Robinm Pseud-^cacia, and the 

 Pinus C^drus, mentioned by Sir William Watson. The cedar 

 of Lebanon was first planted at Fulham in 1683 ; the largest, of 

 two measured in 1793, was only 7 feet 9 inches in girt." 

 " Near the porter's lodge," he continues, " are some limes of 

 great age, one of which measured, in 1793, 13 feet 3 inches in 

 girt. It is most probable that they were planted by Bishop 

 Compton about the year of the Revolution (1688), when the 

 fashion of planting avenues of limes was introduced into this 

 country from Llolland, where they ornamented the Prince of 

 Orange's palaces." 



" Upon visiting the gardens at Fulham again in 1809," 

 Lysons observes, " I could not find the Cupressus semper- 

 vh'ens, the Juniperus virginiana, or the .^^cer riibrum. The 

 following trees still remain, and they will no doubt be re- 

 garded with veneration by the botanist, as the parent stocks 

 of their respective races in the kingdom. The ^^cer Negundo, 

 the girt of which, at three feet from the ground, is now 



