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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
Identifier: arboretumetfrut02loud (find matches)
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Botany; Trees; Forests and forestry
Publisher: London, Printed for the author
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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1226 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. I'Airr in. 1049
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divided in bold sweeping lines. The foliage, tliough appearing late, was, and, indeed, still is, abundant and beautiful. But, some days before the 23d of July, 182+, its great southern limb was broken down by a high wind ; and, although the ruin thus created was sufficiently deplorable, yet it was strikingly sublime." (Lauder's Gilpin, vol. i. p. 82. and ^o.) A drawing of this tree, made by Mr. J. Steven, drawing-master, Elgin, lias been kindly sent to us by William M'Leod, Esq., from which fi^. 1049. is an engraving to a scale of 1 in. to 12 ft. The branch broken off was about 30 ft. long. The cavity in the interior of the trunk is of a regular cone.like shape, terminating in a point, and is lift, in diameter at the bottom, and 6ft. high. An ash tree in the churchyard of Kilmalie, in Lochaber, the parish church of the Lochiel family, burnt down during the troubles in 174(>, was long considered as the largest and most remarkable tree hi Scotland. Its remains were measured in October, 1764, and, at the ground, the circumference was no less than 58 ft. (JCa/ker's Essays, p. 17.) This tree stood on a deep rich soil, only about 30 ft. above the level of the sea, in Lochiel, with a small rivulet running within a few paces of it. (Sang.) An ash tree near Bonhill House, in Dumbartonshire, which is surrounded with a sloping bank of earth, about 3 ft. in height, measured in circumference, in September, 1784, at 4 ft. above the general surface of the ground, 34 ft. 1 in. The proprietor has fitted up a room in the inside of it, with lienches around, and glass windows. The diameter of the room is 8ft. 5in., and its roof is near lift, in height. Sir T. D. Lauder informs us that 18 peojile can dine in this tree; that, though decayed at the heart, it lives in the bark, and forms a great deal of new wood; and that the trunk, which is a vast mass, is covered with fresh vigorous branches. (Lauder's Gilpin, vol. i. p. 265.) A few yards from Cessford Castle, in Roxburghshire, there is a venerable ash tree, which measures in circumference, at the base, 27 ft. 8 in. An ash near the church of Logierait, in Perthshire, measured, at 4 ft. from the ground, in 1770, 16 ft. The same tree, measured in March, 1812, was found to be, at breast high, 21ft. 6 in. in circumference. (Sang.) An ash at Newbottle, in Mid-Lothian, standing east from the house, near the river, in the month of July, 1789, measured in circumference lift. 4in. (Walker's Essays, p. 12.) An ash in the Island of Loch Lev-en, in Fifeshire, in September, 1796, measured in circumference, at 4 ft. from the ground, 12 ft. An ash at Lord Morton's, near Aberdeen, in Fifeshire, measured in March, 1812, extended in length of bole 50 ft.; and in girt, at 4ft. high, 10ft. Sin. An ash tree at Wemyss Castle, in Fifeshire, growing about 100 yards from the door of the Castle, measured, on the 13th of March, 1812, 35 ft. bole ; and in circumference, at 4 ft. from the ground, 15 ft. 3 in. At Biel, in East Lothian, near the East Bridge, an aged ash was in girt, at breast height, July 28.1812, 11 ft. 4 in. in circumference. An ash at Whittinghame.in East Lothian, was in girt, in 1819,12 ft. 9 in. (Sattg's Nicol,p. 547.) An ash at Yair, in Selkirkshire, measured, at the surface of the ground, 12 ft. 9 in. in circumference. (Selkirksliire Hep., p.2M.) The Glammis ash tree at Castle Huntley, in Perthshire, measured in circumference, at the ground, 27 ft ; and, at a yard high, 17 ft. (Slat. Account Scot., vol. xix. p. 467.,) At the river of Blackburn, in the parish of Castle- town, in Roxburghshire, the trunk of an old ash measured in circumference 18 ft. (Ibid., vol. xvi. p. 79.) An ash at Midstratli, in the parish of Bins, ipeasured, at the ground, 20ft. (Ibid., vol. ix. p. 129.) An ash near Deskford, in the county of Banff, called St. John's Tree, measures in girt 24 ft. 5iin. (Ibid., vol. viii. p, 3(\.) Recorded Ash Trees in Ireland. Arthur Young, in his Irish Tour, mentions ash trees of 70l't.and 80 ft. in height, which were only of 35 years' growth. The stem of an ash on the banks of the Avon, more was about 14 ft round, and carried nearly the same dimensions for 18 ft. in height. An ash at Dunganston was 12 ft. round, with a clear trunk of 30 ft., and arms extending nearly 90 ft. on each

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