The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-15 00:00:00

CLONMELL Al

ON THE ANTIQUITY OF TREES.

The longevity of trees is a subject of interest, to
the knowledge of which a value must be justly at-
tached, when it is known that some trees were contem-
porary with the oldest generations of mankind. They
have, in certain cases; thrown light on the history of
monuments ; as the monuments in return have reflected
the same light of knowledge on those ancient trees that
grew near them. The specimens of these patriarchs
of the vegetable world are numerous, and if their im-
mense age be only ascertained with precision, there will
even be found in these facts some means of fixirg
an approximative date to the last revolutions of the
globe.
The Cedars.—Those on Lehman, measured in 1660,
by Maundrel and Pocock, were supposed to be aces
about 609 years old, and about 800 years old in 1787,
when again seen by M. Labellordiere.

The Lime is an European tree which, in a given
time, appears able to acquire the largest diameter.
That of the Chateau of Chadic near Melles, in the
department of the Deux-Sevres, was in 1804 about 538
years old ; that of 'lrons in the Grisons in 1798 newt
have been about 583 years old ; that of I)epeham, near
Norwich, and of Henstadt in \Vurtemburg were also.,
very aged, the last needing props. The large and small
leaved Limes must be distinguished between, as the for.
tiler grow faster than the latter.
The Cypresses, among the trees in the south of 'Eu-
rope, live to the most advanced age. Hunter says that,
in 1776, there existed in the garden of the Palace of
Grenada, cypresses that were celebrated even in the
time of the Moorish Kings, and which were named Cu.
pressos tie la Regna Sultana—from a Sultaness who was
seen under it with the Abencerrages. The largest nor'
known is near the Lago Maggiore. The immense
press of Chapultepec, which, it is said, has attained i 17
feet 10 inches round, is probably the most ancier,t ve-
getable production of the globe.
The Sweet Chesnuts appear to gr,ive to a
great age. Pa3derte says, he saw one in the
connty of Gloucester, which was seprosed to be near
900 years old. (This is the Tz,tworth Chesnut at
Lord Ducle's.) Bose mention one near Lancerre, 30
feet round, and which has, for 600 years, borne the
title of the " Great Chesnut.",

The Orange and Lerner. are among the Europeans•
trees of the slowest growth and the greatest age. It is.
stated that the orange tree in the Convent of Sar'ra
Sabina at Rome, was planted by St. Domenico in 11.00,
and that of Fondi by St. Thomas d'Aquinas, in
The Olive is a tree that can live to an asto-
nishing age, in any country, where it is not
liable to be pruned. M. de Chateaubriand says,
in his " Itinerary," that the eight olive trees
in the garden of that name in Jerusalem, only pay each
a medin to the Grand Seignior, which proves that they
existed at the period of the invasion of the Turks ; for
those planted since that time pay a tax of half their
produce. The largest olive tree mentioned in Italy LT
Pecconi is at Pescio ; this tree, according to Mosch et-
tini, must be 700 years old.
The Yew appears, of all European trees, to attain
the greatest age. Of these venerable trees there are
several in England, whose ages have been ascertains d
hose of the ancient Abbey of Fountainsi, near
Ripon, in Yorkshire, were, in 1770, more than. twelve
centuries old.
Those of the churchyard of Crowhust in Se.rrey. if they
still exist, must be fourteen centuries and a half old.
Those of Fotheringay, in Scotland, meet be reckoned
at from twenty-five to twenty-six centuries—Ferri/gale.
It is possible that these are the (.10.est specimens
of European vegetation. Century after century they
have continued to draw up from the earth their mighty
nourishment ; on their green tzmlarageous heads the
rains and dews of thousand years have fallen, and
they now stand, at the present day, as monuments
of wonder to the generations of men —.Mirror.

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A 11?THS.
On the 13th inst., at the Vicarage, Bankway, Herts, Mrs.
William J. Irons, of a son.
On the 13th inst , in Fitzroy-square, the wife of Wißiagi
Mitcalfe, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 13th inst., in Wilton-crescent, Lady Mary Saurin, of
a daughter.
()n the 13th inst., at Gaddesden-hoo, Herts, the wife of
Russell Scott, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 13th inst., at Oxford, the lady of the Rev. William
Palmer, M.A., of Worcester College, of a daughter.
On the 14th inst., at Camberwell, Mrs. Hobert Spence, of I
a son.
On the 14th inst., Mrs. Taylor, of Mecklcnburgh-square,
of a daughter.
On the 14th inst., at Hampstead, the lady of Allan Maclean
Skinner, Esq., barrister-at-law, of twin daughters.
On the 14th inst., in Bruton-street, the lady of Claude E.
Scott, Esq., of a son.
On the 14th inst., in Euston-square, the lady of William
Clarkson, Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 11th inst., at St. Thomas's Church, Newport, Isle of
\Aright, by the Rev. C. Worseley, Mr. Alfred Smith Faulkner,
of Regent-street, London,to Mary, third daughter of Mr. Roper,
Vine Hotel, Cowes.
On the pith inst., at St Martin's-in-the-Fie'ds, Lieutenant
C. Simmons, R.N., to .Julia Frances Stanley de Chair.
On the 13th inst., at St. Giles's, Camberwell, Edward Ray,
Esq., surgeon, Dulwich, to Rose, eighth daughter of the late
Abraham Mann, Esq., of Clapham, Surrey.
On the 13th inst., at Hove Church, Lientenant-Gencrai Sir
Thomas Bradford, G. C. 8., to Anne Elizabeth, widow of the
late 13. Goad, Esq., of Harley-street.
On the 14th inst.. at St. Alphage, Greenwich, the Rev. J.
Smalman 'Masters, M.A., of Greenwich, to Elizabeth A. \V-
Kenning, the only child of Samuel Kenning, Esq., M.D., of
Greenwich, late of the Ordnance Medical Department.

I)Ir;D.
''On the NCI inst., in Montague-place, Russell-square, Sir
Robert Baker, Beneher of the Inner Temple, torr,eriy Chair-
:ll2n of the Westminster Sessions, and Chief Magistrate at
Bow-street, and until lately Treasurer for the county of Mid-
dlesex, and Deputy-Governor of tlte South Sea Company.
On May last, at sea, on Ids passage from Demerara. to Eng-
land, Mr. Charles Hog;, the youngest son of Mrs. Ilogg of
the Marine-parade, Brighton. ,
On the 3d inst., at Frankfort-sur-Maine, Colonel David
Camplp 11, late 9th Foot.
On the 9th inst., at Carnarvon, ith.jor-General Williarrt
Comyn, of the Hon. East India Company's service, aged Ge.
On the I•2th inst., in Devonshire-strict, Portland-placer
Hannah, relict of the late Samuel Bailin, Esq., aged 'Ott'.

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