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524 At Wollaton Hall, near Nottingham, the property of Lord Middleton, there is a tree 43 feet high which at 5 feet girths 7 feet 10 inches, and at 10 feet, where it forks, 8 feet. It has a spread of not less than 78 feet, which for this tree is very unusual (Plate 147). It is perhaps the most symmetrical of its kind that I have seen anywhere. In the Botanic Gardens at Oxford and Kew there are fair-sized specimens.

In Scotland and Ireland we know of no trees of great size, and none were recorded by Loudon; but at Glasnevin there is one about 35 feet in height, which divides into three stems close to the ground, and has very pendent wide-spreading branches.

Little or nothing is known of the timber in England, but a wood has been imported to France under the name of “Noisetier,” which I believe to belong to this species, and which, as exhibited by M. Hollande of Paris, is very handsome. I purchased some very handsome veneer from Mr. Witt of London, which he told me had come to him direct from Constantinople, and which I believe was cut from the root of C. Colurna. Two good-sized logs of this tree were in the collection of Servian timbers shown at the Balkan States Exhibition in London in 1907; one of them is now in the Kew Museum. Gamble? says that in the Himalaya it is a well- grained timber, which does not warp, of a pinkish-white colour, and often shows a fine shining grain resembling that of bird’s-eye maple.

1 Man. Indian Timbers, 684 (1902).