If my recollection serves me correctly, a drawing and description of this old tree is contained in one of Hone's publications,--I think his _Table Book_.[9] [Footnote 9: [The drawing and description of this venerable oak is given in the _Mirror_, vol. ii. p. 81., where it is stated that Mr. Forsyth's precautions were insufficient to protect it from an injurious custom practised by many of its thoughtless visitors, of making a fire within the cavities to cook their provisions; for, in the month of June, 1805, it was set on fire, and continued burning until the following day, by which the trunk was considerably injured. The high winds of February, 1820, at last stretched its massy trunk and limbs on that turf which it had for so many ages overshadowed with its verdant foliage. The wood of which the pulpit and reading-desk of St. Pancras new church are composed was a portion of the Fairlop Oak; and are looked upon as matters of greater curiosity perhaps, on that account, than even the beautiful grained and highly polished material and the splendid carvings.--ED.]] Another large tree is mentioned in the same volume (p. 87.) as being called "Doodle [Query, _dole_ or _boundary_] Oke." To conclude (if I have not already trespassed too much upon your space), Is the Fairlop Oak still standing; and, if so, what is its present condition? J. B. COLMAN. Eye. Cypress trees on the continent of America grow to immense ages. By counting the concentric rings observed in the wood, on sawing a trunk across, it appears that 400 years is a common age. There is a gigantic trunk near Santa Maria del Tula, in the province of Oaxaca, in Mexico, whose circumference at the dilated base is no less than 200 feet. Of this, taking 1·6 line as the average growth of a year, the age would be 3512 years. (Lyell's _Second Visit to United States_, vol. ii. pp. 254, 255. Prescott's _Peru_, vol. ii. p. 315. 4th edition.) Adanson, the celebrated botanist, calculated the age of one of the famous Baobab trees of Senegal to be 5150 years. (Marquis of Ormonde's _Sicily_, p. 76.) A tamarind tree in the Mahometan burial-ground at Putelam, in Ceylon, is 39 feet in diameter, or upwards of 117 feet in circumference, from which the age may be calculated on the above scale. (Sirr's _Ceylon_, vol. i. p. 85.) T. G. _Arrangement of Books_ (Vol. v., p. 49.).--Your correspondent L.'s letter is very valuable. May I add a few contributions?