The Library of Entertaining Knowledge: Timber Trees; Fruits (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The trunk of the detached oak acquires by far the greater diameter; some of the old hollow trees, most of which are of this description, having a diameter of as much as sixteen feet in the cavity, and still a shell of timber on the outside, sufficiently vigorous for producing leaves and even acorns. The age' to which the oak can continue to vegetate, even after the core has decayed, has not been fully ascertained. But, in favourable situations, it must be very cousi derable. In the New Forest, Evelyn counted, in the sections of some trees, three hundred or four hundred concentric rings or layers of wood, each of which must have recorded a year's growth. The same cele brated planter mentions oaks in Dennington Park, near Newbury, once the residence of Chaucer, which could not have arrived' at the ~size which they possessed in a less period than about three hun dred years; and though he does not say upon what evidence the Opinion is grounded, Gilpin notices, in his Forest Scenery, a few venerable oaks in the New Forest, that chronicle upon their furrowed trunks ages before the Conquest.

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