106 THE OAK TREE IN ESSEX.
Screens Oaks.—There are some fine old oak trees at "Screens,"
Fig, 16.—Oak at Screens.
Girth, 26 feet.
the trunks of which measure from twenty-one to upwards of twenty-
six feet in circumference.
Writtle Oaks.—In a hedge near Writtle Park, there is an oak
with a trunk measuring 31 feet in circumference. This was almost
Fig. 17.—Oak at Writtle.
Bole, 31 feet circumference.
destroyed forty-five years ago by a fire lighted by a boy employed
for scaring birds. There is also a fine oak in Writtle Park (fig. 18),