Chap. IV.] 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
135 
that day the thermometer stood at 80° in the 
shade, and at 120° in the sun; and there was a 
parching east wind. This extraordinary heat 
continued for five days, and is now only begin¬ 
ning to abate. Yet, although the tree is in full 
foliage, not a single leaf has flagged. The 
height of the tree is 27 ft., its girth 1 ft. 10 in. 
Every root is cut at the distance of about two 
feet from the tree. It can, therefore, have few 
ends of roots to feed it. That it is not supplied 
by the leaves, as Liebig and others suppose, is 
clear, because the leaves of the branches which 
were cut off at the transplanting could not even 
supply themselves, but died before the trans¬ 
planting was completed, and dried immediately. 
If the leaves supplied the tree with sap, these 
branches should have remained green. One 
scorched specimen of them is attached to the 
tree. The tree stands in the right-hand hedge 
bordering the road going down from the Brook- 
wood Lodge gate to the Dean, at the point 
where the cross-hedge falls on the road. The 
smaller trees on the sides of this road were 
planted from the nursery in January, 1834. 
The larger beech-trees among them were trans¬ 
planted with 4 the tree-lifter ’ at different times 
since that year, chiefly, like the tree in question, 
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