Not only fruit-trees but various forest-trees are constantly met with on the signboard: thus the GREEN TREE, which is very common, originally had allusion to the foresters of the “merry greenwood,” or was suggested by some large evergreen, or tree sheltering, or standing near the inn; of this green tree the GREEN SEEDLING in Chester is evidently a sprout. Again, in Sheffield there are two signs of the BURNT TREE, which name possibly originated from some tree having been damaged in a fire, and becoming a well-known landmark. The OAK, the vigorous emblem of our mighty state, is deservedly much used for a sign; sometimes it is called the BRITISH OAK. At Kilpeck, in Herefordshire, the following rhyme accompanies it:-- “I am an oak and not a yew, So drink a cup with good John Pugh.” Druidical recollections are called up by the OAK AND IVY, at Bilston, Stafford; HEARTS OF OAK is the material out of which, according to the song, our ships and seamen are constructed, and therefore well deserves the favourite place it occupies amongst the signboards of the present day; whilst the ACORN, the fruit of the British oak, is nearly as common as the other oak signs. Next to the oak the ELM seems to have had most followers. From the trades tokens it appears that the THREE ELMS was the sign of Edward Boswell in Chandos Street, in 1667; and also of Isaac Elliotson, St John Street, Clerkenwell. Besides these there was, about the same date, the ONE ELM, and the ELM. At present we have the NINE ELMS, and the QUEEN’S ELM, Brompton, which is mentioned under the name of the QUEEN’S TREE, in the parish books of 1586. This tree is said to derive its name from the fact of Queen Elizabeth, when on a visit to Lord Burleigh, being caught in a shower of rain, and taking shelter under the branches of an elm-tree, then growing on this spot. The SEVEN SISTERS, the sign of two public-houses in Tottenham, were seven elm-trees, planted in a circular form, with a walnut tree in the middle; they were upwards of 500 years old, and the local tradition said that a martyr had been burnt on that spot. They stood formerly at the entrance from the high road at Page Green, Tottenham. Within the last twenty years they have been removed. The CHESTNUT, the SYCAMORE, the BEECH TREE, the FIR TREE, the BIRCH TREE, and the ASH TREE, all occur in various places where ale-houses are built in the shadow of such trees. The THORN TREE is peculiar to Derbyshire. The BUCKTHORN TREE was, in 1775, the sign of “William Blackwell in Covent Garden, or at his garden in South Lambeth.” He had chosen this sign because he sold, amongst other herbs, “_buckthorn_ and elder-berries, besides leeches and _vipers_.” What the use of the first was is well known; as for the vipers, they were eaten in broth and soups, before Madame Rachel’s enamels were employed, by ladies who wished to continue “young and beautiful for ever.” The CRAB TREE, our indigenous apple-tree, is also seen in a great many places. A house in