THE OAK TREE IN ESSEX.
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very fine tree, probably destined in future years to become one of
the remarkable oaks of the county. Its boughs stretch ninety-
nine feet, and its trunk measures sixteen feet six inches, at five feet
from the ground. Should any of my readers wish to visit this oak,
let me recommend them to go in the spring of the year. Stisted
Park and parish abounds in crimson and white-flowered thorns, and
anything more bright and beautiful than this spot when the bushes
are blossoming, I cannot imagine.
Fig. 33.—Woodham Mortimer Oak.
Woodham Mortimer Oak.—At Woodham Mortimer there is a
grand oak tree with a trunk twenty-four feet in circumference.
Fig. 23.—Oak at "Bedfords, Havering-atte-Bowes.