336 AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. New Series, No. 142 . 
THE “MONARCH OAK”— from a painting by m. anthojjy. 
(Engraved, for the American Agriculturist.) 
We take great pleasure in presenting to our 
readers the above beautiful engraving of the 
Monarch Oak, ami the surrounding forest scenes 
The original sketch was taken from the old Wind¬ 
sor Forest, twenty-five miles Northwest of Lon¬ 
don. This forest abounds in ancient trees, many 
of them flourishing in the time of Norman Wil¬ 
liam—and some of them more ancient. They are 
in various states of decay, and contrast beauti¬ 
fully with the undergrowth of ynung wood, and 
make one “ wonder that a thing so straight, so^ 
round, so beautiful, could ever become so gnarled, 
so wrinkled, and so’ old.” We can not ascertain 
the liight, or dimensions of the main tree in the 
picture-—the artist forgot to note such items--—htrt, 
