Highways and byways in Surrey . rgedand altered to look like nothing the dArblays knew. JuniperHall has also changed, but the splendid cedars which standround its lawns must have been familiar to Talleyrand andMadame de Stael. They have grown curiously slowly ; they donot strike one as larger than many trees which are known tobe not more than a hundred and twenty years old—those, forinstance, at Farnham Castle; but John Timbs, in hisPromenade Round Dorkiiii;, written in 1823, speaks of them asimmense, and as said to be of the finest growth inEngland. Norbury Park also has its famous trees. The
Highways and byways in Surrey . rgedand altered to look like nothing the dArblays knew. JuniperHall has also changed, but the splendid cedars which standround its lawns must have been familiar to Talleyrand andMadame de Stael. They have grown curiously slowly ; they donot strike one as larger than many trees which are known tobe not more than a hundred and twenty years old—those, forinstance, at Farnham Castle; but John Timbs, in hisPromenade Round Dorkiiii;, written in 1823, speaks of them asimmense, and as said to be of the finest growth inEngland. Norbury Park also has its famous trees. The Druids Ualk,a path running under enormous yews, is no longer open to thepublic. But Louis Jennings, thirty years ago, saw the trees 302 THE DRUIDS WALK and preserved a memory of them in Field Paths and GreenLanes:— As the path descends the shadows deepen, and you arrive at a spotwlierc a mass of yews of great size and vast age stretch up the hill, andbeyond to the left as far as the eye can penetrate through the -.^ «f-. Cedars at Juniper Hall. The trees in their long and slow growth have assumed many wild forms,and the visitor who stands there towards evening, and peers into thatsombre grove, will sometimes yield to the spell which the scene is sure toexercise on imaginative natures ; he will half fancy that these ghostly treesare conscious creatures, and that they have marked with mingled pity and XXVIII TROUT IN NORBURY PARK 303 scorn the long processions of mankind come and go like the insects of aday, through the centuries during which they have been stretching out theirdistorted limbs nearer and nearer to each other. Thick fibrous shootsspring out from their trunks, awakening in the memory long-forgottenstories of huge hairy giants, enemies of mankind even as the double-fatal yew itself was supposed to be in other days. The bark stands indistinct layers, the outer ridges mouldering away, like the fragments of awall of some ruined castle. The tops are fre
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