. Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club. 4.^ MKdt^- FiG. 25.—Oak at Hall, near Maldon. THE OAK TREE IN ESSEX. HI Mundon Hall Oaks.—At Mundon Hall, near Maldon, thereis a magnificent collection of oak trees, no less than forty-nine finetrees in a field of moderate size, and in an adjoining wood there isanother, making fifty in all. A large proportion of these trees havetrunks which have grown to the respectable size of from i6 to17 feet circumference. It is quite wonderful to find so many well-grown oaks in one small enclosure. The Hall, though modern, nodoubt repl
. Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club. 4.^ MKdt^- FiG. 25.—Oak at Hall, near Maldon. THE OAK TREE IN ESSEX. HI Mundon Hall Oaks.—At Mundon Hall, near Maldon, thereis a magnificent collection of oak trees, no less than forty-nine finetrees in a field of moderate size, and in an adjoining wood there isanother, making fifty in all. A large proportion of these trees havetrunks which have grown to the respectable size of from i6 to17 feet circumference. It is quite wonderful to find so many well-grown oaks in one small enclosure. The Hall, though modern, nodoubt replaced some older building, as an extensive moat formerlysurrounded both the hall and church. Very probably the groupof oaks is the remains of a park. Quendon Hall Oak.—One of the finest trees in Essex, in its fullluxuriance of growth without a sign of decay, is the oak at QuendonHall, Newport. Its stem is 20 feet 2 inches in girth at three feet. Fig. 26.—Oak at Quendox Hall. from the ground, and it is a truly magnificent tree. In a few!centuries, if no mishap occurs, this may rival the Great Hempsteadoak. In the same park there is another fine tree 17 feet 3 inches ingirth. j Mistley Oaks.—There appear to be oak trees in almost everydistrict with trunks measuring from fifteen to nineteen feet in the park at INIistley, near the Dairy Farm, is an oak in luxuriantgrowth (fig. 27), the boughs of which cover a circle of \\o\ feetin diameter, the trunk being 16 feet 8 inches in circumference atjfive feet from the ground On the verge of a hill in the north-eastof the park, is a tree the boughs of which cover a circle 112 THE OAK TREE IN ESSEX.
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