. 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 . al ])ark or wood o]Knin,u,.among Hawthorns and several indi^enous shrnlis. Holly, Furze, black-thorn and Crab, with liroom lieneath. This retiied coxcit,forming part of the prin]e\al hirest, is l)lameless at jiresent of aforeign tree. Scarcely surpassed in interest and anti([uity by any other Lcrouji inthe kinL;dom are the famous IJorrowdale Yews which .stand on thelef
. 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 . al ])ark or wood o]Knin,u,.among Hawthorns and several indi^enous shrnlis. Holly, Furze, black-thorn and Crab, with liroom lieneath. This retiied coxcit,forming part of the prin]e\al hirest, is l)lameless at jiresent of aforeign tree. Scarcely surpassed in interest and anti([uity by any other Lcrouji inthe kinL;dom are the famous IJorrowdale Yews which .stand on theleft of tlie mountain track over the Sty Pass to AVastdale. They arethe remains of a _<rrove of ^ews that were reduced to foiu-, knownalmost tluouf.(hout the nineteenth century as the poet WordsworthsFraternal Four, a hrotherliood of venera1)le trees which remaineduninjured till one of them was uprooted by the ^ivat .i^ale ofDecemher, bSS.) ; the others were also more or less injured liy thebreakage of Inanches. The illustiation repicsents their present aspeitand condition.^Many individual tiees have become celebrated either on accountof their oreiit ae or by reason of their association with historical. - 8 132 KMMAIIKAIILK VKWS. events, or with places of worsliip ; only a few of the mostremarkable of these can he noticed here.* The Fortingal Yew in IVvthshivc is su])iinsc(l td he the oldest in(4reat Britain ; it is now a niciv slicll, tlie oidy ])arts ;hein^ the outerniost i)ortion of tlic old tiuiik wliicli is 50 feet in^ivtli near the ground. in the shruhhery at Kyrle Iark, Worciestershire, stands a ^ery oldtree split into two parts ; the upright part is 24 feet in girth at hvv, feetfrom the ground, and tlie area oversi)read h\ its hranches is over70 feet in diameter ; the slanting portion is Imllow ; the totaldiameter of iunl) is 65 At Trentham, 8tatFordshire, are some veneralile Yews of almost hoaryantiquity. There are twenty-three trees, all of them
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