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A SINGULAR FACT CONNECTED WITH AN OAK TREE. 
would only be required in the summer months, no unnecessary waste of water 
would be incurred, nor any danger from frost feared. 
It is said, a very costly fountain is intended to be formed in front of the new 
National Gallery — an excellent situation for such a work, and a most appropriate 
accompaniment to such a building. 
There are many noblemen and gentlemen's seats in the country where fountains 
might be judiciously introduced as garden ornaments ; and in addition to the several 
beautiful designs for such things heretofore given in this magazine, we shall con- 
tinue to figure any others which we may think worthy of the notice of our readers. 
A SINGULAR FACT CONNECTED WITH AN OAK TREE THAT GREW 
IN CHATSWORTH PLEASURE GROUNDS. 
Sketch of a fine oak tree (see 
accompanying figure) that grew in 
Chatsworth pleasure-grounds, the 
top and part of the bole of which 
were blown off by the remarkably 
high wind of the 29thof December, 
1798; by which it was found to 
be hollow, owing to a large branch 
having been broken or cut off at 
an unfavourable season for its 
healing over, and that occasioned 
internally the dry rot, when a 
branch bent into its trunk, and 
shot into roots instead of branches, 
as here represented, and grew 
down into the ground for a con- 
siderable depth. Is it not proba- 
ble that in time the trunk would 
have decayed away, and this 
branch have formed a succeeding 
tree? 
White Watson. 
