Title: 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 ...
Identifier: arboretumetfru03loud (find matches)
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Trees; Shrubs; Botany; Botany
Publisher: London : J. C. Loudon
Contributing Library: California Academy of Sciences Library
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1776 AKIiORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART 111.
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1621 Nottingham, and Derby, and dripped over 777 square yards. An oak between Newnham Courtney and Clifton shaded a circumference of 560 yards of ground, under which 2420 men might have commodiously taken shelter. The immense Spread Oak in Worksop Park, near the white gate, gave an extent, between the ends of its opposite branches, of 180 ft. It drip- ped over an area of nearly 3000 square yards, which is above half an acre ; and would have afforded shelter to a regiment of nearly 1000 horse. The Oakley Oak, now growing on an estate of the Duke of Bedford, has a head 110 ft. in diameter. The oak called Robur Britannicum, in the park at Rycote, is said to have been extensive enough to cover 5000 men; and at Ellerslie, in Ren- frewshire, the native village of the hero Wallace, there is still standing "the large oak tree" (see p. 1772.), among the branches of which it is said that he and 300 of his men hid themselves from the English. Size of Oaks, as compared with that of other Objects. " The circle occupied by the Cowthorpe Oak," says Professor Burnet, "where the bottom of its trunk meets the earth, exceeds the ground plot of that majestic column of which an oak is confessed to have been the prototype, viz. Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse. Sections of the trunk of the one would, at several heights, nearly with sections of the curved and cylindrical portions of the shaft of the other. The natural caverns in Damory's and other oaks were larger than the chambers alluded to, as horizontal slices of the trunk would be con- siderably too large to floor any of them. The hollow space in Damory's Oak v. a-., indeed, 3ft. wider than the parish church of St. Lawrence, in the Isle of Wight. Arthur's round table would form an entire roof, or projecting capital, for the lighthouse: indeed, upon this table might be built a round church, as large BS that of St. Lawrence, in the Isle of Wight, before alluded to, and e to spare; BO that, if the extent of the sap wood be added, or the ground plot of the Cowthorpe Oak be substituted for Arthur's table, there would be plen( J of rOOOl, DOt only to build such a parish church, but to allow space for â small cemetery beside it. Indeed," continues Burnet, "with reference to

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