Chap. IV.] 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
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CHAP. 1Y. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
ln July, 1832, I observed a horse-chesnut tree 
near Esher, in the corner of a field adjoining 
S mdown turnpike-gate. It had been barked by 
cattle all round, I should suppose twenty or 
twenty-five years before, since the surface of the 
barked part was rotten, and might be picked off. 
Mr. King, steward to Mr. Spicer, to whom the 
tree belongs, said that he had recollected the 
tree in this state for eighteen years. 
The head of the tree was in full foliage, and 
at the end of some branches, which had been 
cropped by cattle the previous year, had shot 
s;x or seven inches. The girth of the barked 
part of the stem was thirteen inches and seven 
eighths. The girth below the barked part was 
twenty-two inches and a quarter, and above the 
barked part, twenty-nine inches. The tree had 
ceased to deposit new growth on the old scar, 
which I attribute to the rottenness of the sur¬ 
face of the scar, and to its having mouldered 
Barked horse- 
chestnut at 
Esher. 
