[11] _British Forest Trees_, 1842, p. 208.
[12] _British Forest Trees_, p. 229.
[13] _A Traveller's Notes_, by J. H. Veitch, p. 105.
[14] Selby's _British Forest Trees_, p. 141.
[15] Since writing this I have received from a friendly correspondent a
bottle of elder-berry wine, and must confess that I conceived no desire
for a second bottle.
[16] _Trees of Great Britain and Ireland_, p. 34.
[17] _Trees of Great Britain and Ireland_, ii. 411-417.
[18] A "dole" (in charity) is merely a dialectic variant of "deal."
[19] One of these, a sycamore at Ellon, was blown down in 1873.
[20] _Trees of Great Britain and Ireland_, Vol. ii. p. 363.
[21] David Sharp in _Cambridge Natural History_, Vol. vi. p. 583 (1899).
[22] Professor Sargent says, "sometimes 250 feet high."
[23] _The Yew Trees of Great Britain and Ireland_, p. 60, by John Lowe,
M. D., 1897.
[24] _Ibid._, p. 59.
[25] With all the trees that thou hast tended,
Thy brief concern is well-nigh ended,
Except the cypress--_that_ may wave
Its hateful symbol o'er thy grave.
(Horace, _Odes_, ii. 14.)
[26] At Monreith I have many trees thirty feet high and more, raised
from seed gathered at Fiesole, near Florence, in 1878; but young plants
raised from seed gathered at Gravosa, in Dalmatia, in 1907, were all
killed by frost, indicating that the cypress has acquired a hardier
constitution in Tuscany than those growing on the hot limestone of
Dalmatia.
[27] _Silva of California_, p. 145.
[28] Professor Jepson states that "stands of 125,000 to 150,000 feet,
board measure, to the acre, are not uncommon," _op. cit._ p. 151.
[29] It is nowhere truly wild, and is a relic of a very ancient flora.
Geological evidence shows that it is the last survivor of an ancient
family, which flourished during Secondary times, and can even be traced
back to the Primary rocks. In Mezozoic times this genus played an
important part in the arborescent flora of north-temperate regions.
Fossil remains, almost identical with the present existing species, have
been found, not only in this country and North America, but also in
Greenland.--_A Naturalist in Western China_, by E. H. Wilson, ii. 45.
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