The oak woods, or rather groves, on this estate, contain a greater number of large well-grown trees than we ever saw together before. Many of them are 100 ft. high, with clean trunks of nearly uniform thickness for half or two thirds of their height, the diameter of these trees varying from 3 ft. to 6 ft., at 4 ft. from the ground. They are all, without a single exception, Quercus sessiliflora; there scarcely being a single plant of Quercus pedunculata in the park, or for a mile round it, either young or old. A great many single trees, so arranged as at a distance to combine into groups and masses, have been planted under the immediate inspection of Sir John Trevelyan, who has an excellent taste in landscape; as the disposition of the trees alluded to, and the drives cut through woods on the sides of steep hills, and the terrace roads, as they may be called, through open fields on hill sides, abundantly prove.
