[ [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.