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Title: Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Trees Shrubs Plants
Publisher: London, Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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engraving appears also to have been sold at the tree. Nine elm trees,standing on Hampstead Heath in 1805, were celebrated in a poem by Edward(Joxe, Esq., published in that year. (Ibid., p. 40.) In a manuscript lent to Professor Martyn by Craven Ord, Esq., of Pursers Cross, and probably written by Oldys (the translator of Camdens Britamiia, who died in 1761),mention is made of several remarkable elms. One at Charlton, in Kent,al)out whicii it is said Horn Fair was kept, spread 8yards on every side; the height was about 10 yards, but the trunk not above 1 ft. in diameter. One of Sir Francis Bacon's elms, in Grays Inn walks, planted in 1600, was felled, upon a suspected decay, in 1720 or 1726, and was 12 ft. round; its headcontained 45 ft. of timber. In 1750, not above eight trees of his planting were left. They were planted in 16OO. At Fulham are, or were, some elms planted in the time of King Edward VI.; and one at Richmond, said to be planted by 4 V 1392 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PA TIT nr.
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The Great Hollow Elm Tree of Hampstead (page 1391) a courtier of King Henry VII., whilst that king kept his court there, and yet (in Oldys's time) in its prime. The row of elms on that side of the Mall in St. James's Park next to the palace are some of them about 160 years of age. One, which stood at the upper end, turning to the Green Park, being blown down, was found to be above 60 ft. in height, and near 12 ft. in circumference near the root. They are now (in 1805) considerably more than 200 years old; but very few are remaining (in 1836, none), and those very much decayed. Two elms, at St. John's College, Oxford, were sizeable trees in the reign of Queen Mary. Stately rows of elms, at Hillhall, in Essex, are said to have been planted by Sir" Thomas Smith. (Mart. Mill.) On the 29th of November, 1836, some of the largest elms in St. James's Park, and also in Kensington Gardens, were blown down during a tremendous hurricane, which made dreadful havock among large trees in most parts of England. Mr. Coxe, in his account of Monmouthshire, mentions an ancient e\m at Ragland Castle, which was 28 ft. 5 in. in circumference near the root (Ibid.) Mr. Boutcher informs us that he sold a line of English elms, about 60 in number, at a guinea a tree, at 24- years' growth : they were about 18 in. in diameter at 1ft. above ground, and 40 ft. high. It is probably the tree mentioned in the above quotation from Martyn's Miller, as having been planted by a courtier of Henry VII., that Mr. Jesse alludes to in the 2d series of his Gleanings. He says, "At the north-west angle of Richmond Green may now be seen "the trunk of an ancient elm, called the Queen's Elm, from having, it is said, been a favourite tree of Queen Elizabeth's. Some kind hand, with equal good taste and feeling, has planted ivy round its naked trunk; and the inhabitants of Richmond, much to their credit, have protected it from injury by surrounding it with a paled fence. The ivy has thriven, and the lately naked trunk is now richly covered with a verdant mantle." (p. 268.) Mr. Jesse also mentions an elm tree in Hampton Court Park, called Kmg Charles's Swing, which, he says, " is curious from its size and shape. At 8 ft. from the ground, it measures 38 ft. in circumference It is, perhaps, not

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