Trees - Our Botanicultural Heritage

[David Humphries]

that wall aint old, it was a replacement for one that the roots pushed out previously.

 

 

Stop reading things literally you

 

Stick with the point of the post will ya

 

 

Big tree, they loves it, they protects it

 

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[Amelanchier]

I'll update the situation in a week or so.

 

Hows the slab doing?

[David Humphries]

Hows the slab doing?

 

Oh Tony, I'm crestfallen.

 

Do you really not follow my threads with breath that is bated ???

 

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/members-only/30445-solution-suit-both-perspectives.html

 

 

 

 

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[Amelanchier]

Oops sorry. I did take June off...

[David Humphries]

Oops sorry. I did take June off...

 

Ofcourse that's really no excuse, now is it :sneaky:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Fungus]

A 400+ years old Tilia, a lime tree in the eastern parts of The Netherlands, underneath which then intact crown and foliage, according to the sign, the French Sun King Louis XIV rested in 1672.

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I never used to like limes but have matured and grown to appreciate them immensely

[David Humphries]

The Hampstead Elm.

 

This etching is by Wenceslaus Hollar, who drew a whole series of scenes from London around 1653.

Sadly no trace of the tree exists, and I'm yet to track down exactly where it was.

 

But according to report it actually did exist, and had stairs up & through its hollow ending in a platform that may have been used as an arborial classroom.

 

 

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[skyhuck]

Thats awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[David Humphries]

The Hampstead Elm..

 

Some stats on the dimensions of this fascinating tree......

 

“The Bottom above ground in Compass is 28 foot; The Breadth of the door is 2 foot; The Compass of the turret on the Top is 34 foot; The Door in Height to go in is 6 foot 2 Inches; The Height to the Turret is 33 foot; The Lights into the Tree is 16; The Steps to go up is 42; The Seat above the Steps, Six may Sit on, and round about room for fourteen more. All the way you go up within the Hollow Tree.”

 

 

Some prose suposedly from inside & inspired by......

 

 

"Civil people, you welcome be,

That come to view this Hollow Tree.

Debaucht Drunkard, Ranting Whore,

Come no such within this Door:

Wanton Boys and ranting Rigs,

Cut no Bowes, break no Sprigs."

 

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