. 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 . 1770 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART 111. rounding country. Near Newee gate, in the same park, stands the Roan Oak,the branches of which are almost
. 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 . 1770 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART 111. rounding country. Near Newee gate, in the same park, stands the Roan Oak,the branches of which are almost all partially decayed, and distorted and twistedinto the most fantastic forms. One of these resembles a writhing serpent,and another forms no bad representation of a lion cowering, and just ready tospring on his prey. The trunk of this tree is 26 ft. 3 in. in Magii Oak, which is supposed by the country people to be haunted byevil spirits, has a hollow open trunk, and is nearly 30 ft. in , situated in a ravine, called the Gutter Oak, is also hollow, and has atrunk nearly 40 ft. in circumference. (See Gard. Mag., vol. xii. p. 312.) Suffolk. The Huntingfield Oak. The following account of Queen Eliza-beths Oak {fig. 1615.) is copied from A TopograjMcal and Historical De-scription of Suffolk, published in 1829 : — Huntingfield. An oak in the park,which Queen Elizabeth was particularly pleased with,afterwa
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