Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber's Note. Hyphenation has been standardized. In the chemical formula C_{6}H_{8}(OH)_{6} the numbers indicated thus _{ } are subscripts. =================================== TREES: A WOODLAND NOTEBOOK GLASGOW PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE & COMPANY LTD. FOR JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS, PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW MACMILLAN AND CO. LTD. LONDON THE MACMILLAN CO. NEW YORK MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA TORONTO SIMPKIN, HAMILTON AND CO. LONDON BOWES AND BOWES CAMBRIDGE DOUGLAS AND FOULIS EDINBURGH MCMXV [Illustration: JUDAS TREE (_Cercis siliquastrum_) AT TWYFORD LODGE, WINCHESTER] TREES A WOODLAND NOTEBOOK CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS ON CERTAIN BRITISH AND EXOTIC TREES ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY MR. HENRY IRVING AND OTHERS BY THE RIGHT HON. SIR HERBERT MAXWELL BT., F.R.S., LL.D. (GLASGOW), D.C.L. (DURHAM) Sit here by me, where the most beaten track Runs through the forest--hundreds of huge oaks, Gnarled, older than the thrones of Europe. Look, What breadth, height, strength--torrents of eddying bark! Some hollow-hearted from exceeding age (That never be thy lot nor mine!)--and some Pillaring a leaf-sky on their monstrous boles, Sound at the core as we. TENNYSON'S _The Foresters_, iii. 1. GLASGOW JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY 1915 To the Reader The following chapters, which have their origin in papers originally contributed to the _Scotsman_, are designed to meet, and possibly to stimulate, that interest in British woodland resources which has so greatly increased within recent years. The author's aim has not been to present either a scientific botanical treatise or a manual of technical forestry; he has attempted to describe the leading characteristics of the forest growths indigenous to the United Kingdom, and to indicate those exotic species which have proved, or are likely to prove, best adapted to the British climate, whether as economic or purely decorative subjects.