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Title: Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Kent, Adolphus Henry Veitch, James Herbert, 1868-1907 James Veitch & Sons
Subjects: Conifers Conifers
Publisher: Chelsea : J. Veitch
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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wo of which are erect and the others spreading. It is afruit-bearing tree and lielieved to l)e over one thousand years old. The Fountains Alibey Yews near Boroughliridge in Yorkshire are,after the Fortingal Yew, supposed to be the oldest in Great Britain.There were originally seven, and in Evelyns time six were still standing,Imt in 1891 Dr. Lowe found but five, and of these two were dead anduprooted. In Gresford churchyard near \\rexliam in Denbighshire is one of theoldest and still one of the largest Yews. The circumference of the trunkat five feet from the ground is over 30 feet and its height exceeds50 feet. * There was a veiy ancient Yew iu the cluuchyard of Kiikiieating, near Hudderstielil.The iuhalntants of the viUage liave a tradition that the church i whicli dates before 1245)was l)uilt to the tree, and not the tree i)lanted to tlie church. It was livhig in 1864, hutis now dead.—G. Boberts, in S<:ieiir< (rossij), 187.i, p. 70. t The Yew Trees of Great Britain, p. 197.
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KEMAKKAlil.K YEWS. 135 111 the cliurcliyard f Tislunv in Wiltsliivc is an rnoniKins Yew dvcvM) feet in ciirniiifciviicc witli lar>j,v linilis lM) to i.) tVct lon,^.^ Tlictrunk is nuw \u))h>\y ami is cntiMvd liy means of u rustic .i;at;e in Surrey, and other places.The association of the Yew with earlv English history is varied andiniliovtant. Veiierahle trees still mark the spots where great events havetaken jilace. and others are associated with tin- names of histoiicpersonages. The Ankerwyke Y.nv, near Staines, witnessed the conferencehetween King -lohn and tlie Knglish Harons in 121.), and in sight ofwliich :\higna Charta was signed. It is 30; f

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