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VEGETATION SURVEY OF NORFOLK. 
circumference of 44 yards. There are some good yews at 
Hockering. The more easterly of two in front of Yew Tree 
Farm is about 50 ft. high, with girth just under 10 ft.; four in 
the garden of a cottage almost opposite have girths of 6 ft., 
5 ft. 6 in., 5 ft., and 4 ft. 6 in. In the Nursery Plantation, 
Felthorpe, are specimens of Spanish fir (Abies pinsapo), Deodar 
( Cedrus deodarci), and four Sequoia gigantea with girths 
8 ft. 9 in., 8 ft. 2 in., 7 ft. 11 in., and 7 ft. 8 in. Alongside King 
William’s Drive, Attlebridge, are some Austrian pines, one 
having a girth of 9 ft. 2 in., while in Attlebridge is a silver fir 
10 ft. and another 7 ft. in girth and 85 ft. high. In Spixworth 
Park there is a horse-chestnut 16 ft. in girth, with a horizontal 
branch extending 60 ft. from the trunk. A layering beech near 
the Hall compares very favourably in appearance and dimen- 
sions with the famous tree at Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian, 
N.B., figured and described by Henry and Elwes. (Trees of 
Gt. Britain and Ireland, Vol. I., p. 24, plates 8 and 9). The 
following dimensions will suffice for comparison 
In both cases branches bend to the ground and take root at 
about 30 feet from the bole, giving rise to a circle of daughter 
trees which obscure the central stem when in foliage. At 
Stratton Strawless are many fine trees to which interest attaches 
because they were planted by Robert Marsham, F.R.o,, whose 
diary and correspondence record their history. The cedar 
planted in 1747, with cylindrical stem branching at 40 ft., now 
has a girth of 16 ft. and is still gaining an inch per year. The 
silver firs planted with it as nurses are well over 100 ft. high ; 
two blown down in 1895 and 1907 measured 135 ft. and 131 ft., 
and were believed to be the tallest trees in the county. Some 
fine beeches date from Marsham’s time, and a cork oak 
( Quercus suber) adjoining the Hall is said to be the biggest 
north of the Thames. 
Girth at 5 feet ... 
Height ... 
Circumference of foliage . 
Newbattle. Spixworth, 1911. 
20 ft. 3g in. ... 23 ft. 
112 ft. 
400 ft. 
92 ft. 
375 ft. 
