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oldest and finest specimens are to be found in this heli 
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Pyramidal Oaks. — I have been much interested 
in the illustration and description of the»-pyramidal > 
Oak given at p. 179, and wilder if the tree that is 
these grounds isinQ. lQst one y our cmre- 
i spondS l^ats of. The specimen growing here is 
somewhat more compact than that shown in your 
illustration, and does not branch out so much at the 
top. Its height is 75 feet, and its girth at 3 feet from the 
ground is 6 feet. It was planted probably al^ut eighty 
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i or ninety years since by the then Marquis of Blandford, 
and great-grandfather of the present Duke of^Marl- 
borough, whose great talent for ’ ’ 
landscape gardening 
raised Whiteknights Park to such a high position among 
the gardens of that day. The tree growing in these 
groundl^,5vhich I have had charge of for upwards of 
twenty years, has ripened a few acorns once only in that 
time, which was, I think, in 1867. I collected what ^ 
few there were, and sowed them ; the result was, pjf 
that about a dozen came up ; the largest of them are 
now from 6 to 10 feet high, and are pretty much the N 
same in habit as the parent tree. The specimen 
growing here has 4 feet of clear stem, from whence it 
branches out, and forms a perfect pyramid. W, Lees, 
Wilderness, Reading. [There is a fine specimen, but 
not so high as that mentioned, in the nursery of 
Messrs. Kmmont & Kidd, at Canterbury. Ed.] 
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