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ARBORETUM ANO FRUTICETUM.

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bears a grand head ; it is 69 ft. high; and the extent of its boughs, from east to west, is 114 ft.**(Lauder’s Gilpin , ii. p.256.) There are several fine oaks in the park of Earl Stanhope at Chevening,near Seven Oaks. One of these is 14 ft. 6 in, in girt at 3 ft. from the ground; and the diameter of thehead is 84 ft. From a leaf of this tree sent us by Earl Stanhope, it would appear to be Q. sessiliflbra;but of this we are not certain. In Somersetshire, at Brockley Hall, it is 80 ft. high, with a trunkabove 36ft. in circumference; at Nettlecombe, 220 years old, it is 100ft. high, the diameter of thehead 50ft., and circumference of the trunk 20ft. In Surrey, at Claremont, it is 76ft. high, thediameter of the head 80ft., and girt of the trunk 13 ft. 6 in. In Sussex, at Cowdray, it is 60 ft. high,the diameter of the head 103ft., and girt of the trunk 16 ft. 6 in.; at Kidbrooke, 100 years old, it ia60 ft. high, the diameter of the head 88 ft., and girt of the trunk 21ft. The Kookery Oak, atKidbrooke, the seat of Lord Colchester, is 90 ft. high ; the circumference of the trunk, at 1 ft. fromthe ground, is 18 ft., and the diameter of the head 70 ft.: the species is Q. pedunculkta. The SussexFarm Yard Oak, on the same estate (Q sessiliflbra), is 70ft high, with a trunk 21ft. in circum,ference, and a head 90ft. in diameter. In Horsfield’s History, %c. of Sussex, Append. II., Botany,by T. H. Cooper, Esq., F.L.S., p. 6., published 1835, is an account of “ a very fine oak, perhaps thefinest in the county, which grows in the pleasure-grounds of Sheffield Park. The but or bole, inheight 22 ft., measures 15 ft. 5 in. in circumference ; and, as the tree is in a most thriving state, it willattain a much larger size. The amount of timber now contained in the tree is more than 11 loads.The oak in the kitchen-garden is also a beautiful tree, although not so large as the other: it measures