lyo The ^^(amral Hijlory 
7 8 . Befide the Elms at St. Johns knit together at the root^thttt 
are two Beeches in the way from Oxford to Beading^ near a place 
called Cain-end^ more ftrangely joined together a great height 
from the ground : for the bodies of thefe Treei come from diffe- 
rent roots, and afcend parallel to the top, but are joined together 
alittle before they come to bough, by a tranfverfe piece of tim- 
ber entering at each end into the bodies of the Trees^ and growing 
jointly with them, for which reafon 'tis commonly called the 
GallovP'tree^ though the piece that intercedes them lies fomwhat 
obliquely : How this (liould come to pafs many have wondered, 
but the problem I guefs may be eafily folved, only by allowing 
the tranfverfe piece of Timber to be one of the boughs of the Tree 
to which its lowermoft end ftill joins, which whilft young and 
tender, might bear fo hard againft the body of the neighboring 
Tree^ that with the continual motion of the wind, it might not 
only fret it felf afunder, but gall off the barktoo of the other 
Tree ; which clofingup again in calm weather at the riling of the 
fap, might well include fo near a neighbor, firft within its barky 
and after fome time within the weed it felf: which I have obfer- 
ved to have been done but very lately in Nerp College Gardens, 
where the boughs of two different Sycomores are thus grown to- 
gether, only by bearing hard on one another, and interchangably 
fretting away each others hark-, ^nd then clofing up again at the 
rifingof the fap. 
79, There have alfo fome <7Cc/^/e;7/5- befallen the A//!) zndPFil- 
loxv^ not commonly met with ^ the former whereof in a Clofe of 
one Mr. ^Tc^er, of the Town of Biffeter^ grows frequently out of 
the boal of the other, yet not as 'tisufual amongft other Trecs^ 
but fo that the roots of the Ajhes have fome of them grown down 
through the whole length of the trunks of the Willovps^ and at laft 
fattening into the earth it felf, have fo extended themfelves that 
they have burfl: the Willows in (under, whofe fides falling away 
from them and perifliingby degrees, what before were but the 
roots^ are now become the bodies of the A/hes themfelves. But * 
this happens only to IVillows that have been lopt at fix or feven 
foot high ; the Willows at Enflon^ in the walks near the Rock, 
whereof there are feveral about 50 foot high, being incapable I 
fuppofe of any fuch accident. 
80. Befide this unufual growth of the Afh^ I have met with 
other 
