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tall stems which it now shows (Plate 248). These measure from 5 to 8 feet in girth, the whole forming a group about 12 feet wide, and some of them reaching nearly 100 feet in height. There are many small suckers, as usual, and some of these have been transplanted to the front of the present mansion, where they were, when I saw them in 1903, about 25 feet high. Lord Arundell was good enough to give me two rooted suckers from the old tree, one of which is now planted at Tortworth Court, and the other at Colesborne.

At Holme Lacy, Hertfordshire, the seat of the Earl of Chesterfield, there is a very fine tree standing ona walled depression near the house. Its bole was until recently surrounded by laurels, which have now been cleared away, so that I was able in October 1908 to measure it carefully. I found it to be about 95 feet high by 19 feet in girth at the smallest point, about 3 feet from the ground. A photograph of this tree is at Kew, and it was reported in 1884 to be 70 feet high.

There are several trees in Kew Gardens, the largest growing in front of the Herbarium, and measuring 60 feet in height and 9 feet 3 inches in girth, A larger specimen was cut down a good many years ago, and a section of the trunk is exhibited in the Timbers Museum.

There are several fine trees at Syon,’ the largest near the lake being, in 1905, 98 feet in height and 12 feet 7 inches in girth, while another is 89 feet by 13 feet. Both these trees are remarkable for their buttressed stems. Near the bridge there is a slender specimen, crowded by other trees, which is 92 feet high, with a stem 7 feet 2 inches in girth, and free of branches to about 50 feet.

At Albury there is a remarkable specimen, with a bole of only 4 feet in height, but 16 feet in girth, dividing into numerous stems.

In the Wilderness, at Croome Court, Lady Coventry showed me a tree of this species, which was supposed to be a species of hornbeam. It measured, in 1906, 65 feet by 14½ feet, and grew in an angle between two hedges, into which its suckers had spread profusely, and being clipped with the hedge, may eventually form part of it when the original tree dies. Another tree grows in the Temple Shrubberies at the same place, about 70 feet by 7 feet, with a clean trunk about 15 feet long, and was of a better shape, but is now partially decayed.

At Pitt House, near Chudleigh, Devonshire, the seat of Captain Morrison Bell, there are several Zelkovas which seem to thrive well in this climate. The largest is a very well-shaped and healthy tree measuring 80 to 85 feet by 13 feet. Its leaves were beginning to unfold on 15th April 1908. Some trees have thrown up suckers in the hedge by the high road here, but the gardener has not observed any flowers.

At Oxford, in the University Park, on the banks of the Cherwell, there are two, the larger of which, not a well-shaped tree, is about 80 feet by 12½ feet.

At Kyre Park there are two trees on the banks of a pond near the house, both of which have begun to decay, and large pieces of the smooth bark were dropping off them when I visited Kyre in 1904. The largest measured about 75 feet by 16 feet

1 According to Loudon the largest tree at Syon was in 1834, 54 feet high and 2 feet 3 inches in diameter.