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The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . Fig. 32.—brown oak from welbeck abbey. selves there, so that of them to this day it iscalled Ostmontown and corruptly Oxmantown, inthe parish of St. Michan of one Michanus, Deanand Bishop, who founded the church unto whomMurchaid or Murrough, King of Leicester, gave in appearance, much of the timber is of a rich,dark-brown colour, in some cases cinnamon brown,and some of the beams measure about two feetsquare. Judging from the appearance of thetimber in various parts of the roof. I am strongly. Fig. 3
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . Fig. 32.—brown oak from welbeck abbey. selves there, so that of them to this day it iscalled Ostmontown and corruptly Oxmantown, inthe parish of St. Michan of one Michanus, Deanand Bishop, who founded the church unto whomMurchaid or Murrough, King of Leicester, gave in appearance, much of the timber is of a rich,dark-brown colour, in some cases cinnamon brown,and some of the beams measure about two feetsquare. Judging from the appearance of thetimber in various parts of the roof. I am strongly. Fig. 33.—Spanish chestnut from Greenwich park. that parcel of land to that use. The freegroundor common now called Oxmantown Green was allwood. He that diggeth at this day to any depthshall find the ground full of great roots. Fromthem Anno 1098 King William Rufus, by licenceof Murchard, had that frame of wood which made of opinion that during the alterations and repairsof 1397 the best of the original Irish oak wasretained and, in conjunction with other timberof the same kind, used in the present roof. Thatthe original timber was of Irish origin is cer-tainly surprising when we consider the vast forests of Oak that weTe at that time to be foundin many parts of England, but particularly in thecounties of Kent, Sussex and Surrey, and withineasy reach of the metropolis. A. I). Webster. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REDHYBRID TEA ROSE. A REVIEW OF RED ROSES. f Continued from page ^.) The year 1900 produced three Roses, two ofthem of climbing habit, Francois Crousse andNoella Nabonnand, and th
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