[1] Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Introduction, p. xv.

[2] Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, ii. 334.

[3] Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, ii. 328.

[4] Sylva, chap. iii. section 2.

[5] The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, by H. J. Elwes and Augustine Henry, vol. i. p. 20.

[6] Holly.

[7] Sycamore.

[8] Probably the ash.

[9] The summer of 1914 was noted for a similar abundance of seed on the wych elm.

[10] Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, p. 1881.

[11] British Forest Trees, 1842, p. 208.

[12] British Forest Trees, p. 229.

[13] A Traveller's Notes, by J. H. Veitch, p. 105.

[14] Selby's British Forest Trees, p. 141.

[15] Since writing this I have received from a friendly correspondent a bottle of elder-berry wine, and must confess that I conceived no desire for a second bottle.

[16] Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, p. 34.

[17] Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, ii. 411-417.

[18] A "dole" (in charity) is merely a dialectic variant of "deal."

[19] One of these, a sycamore at Ellon, was blown down in 1873.

[20] Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. ii. p. 363.

[21] David Sharp in Cambridge Natural History, Vol. vi. p. 583 (1899).

[22] Professor Sargent says, "sometimes 250 feet high."

[23] The Yew Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, p. 60, by John Lowe, M. D., 1897.

[24] Ibid., p. 59.

[25] With all the trees that thou hast tended,
Thy brief concern is well-nigh ended,
Except the cypress—that may wave
Its hateful symbol o'er thy grave.
(Horace, Odes, ii. 14.)

[26] At Monreith I have many trees thirty feet high and more, raised from seed gathered at Fiesole, near Florence, in 1878; but young plants raised from seed gathered at Gravosa, in Dalmatia, in 1907, were all killed by frost, indicating that the cypress has acquired a hardier constitution in Tuscany than those growing on the hot limestone of Dalmatia.

[27] Silva of California, p. 145.

[28] Professor Jepson states that "stands of 125,000 to 150,000 feet, board measure, to the acre, are not uncommon," op. cit. p. 151.

[29] It is nowhere truly wild, and is a relic of a very ancient flora. Geological evidence shows that it is the last survivor of an ancient family, which flourished during Secondary times, and can even be traced back to the Primary rocks. In Mezozoic times this genus played an important part in the arborescent flora of north-temperate regions. Fossil remains, almost identical with the present existing species, have been found, not only in this country and North America, but also in Greenland.—A Naturalist in Western China, by E. H. Wilson, ii. 45.