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Sir Herbert Maxwell. Trees: A Woodland Notebook
Trees: A Woodland Notebook
Table of Contents
The Oak
The Beech
The Spanish Chestnut
The Ash
The Linden Tree or Lime
The Elms
The Sycamore and other Maples
The Plane
The Horse Chestnut
The Poplars
The Birch
The Willows
The Hornbeam
The Alder
The Tulip Tree
The Hawthorn
The Rowan and its Relatives
The Gean Tree, or Wild Cherry
The Walnut
The Holly
Pea-flowered Trees
The Elder
The Hazel
The Ailanto
The Pines
The Silver Firs
The Spruce Firs
The Cedar
The Larch
The Yew
The Cypress and its Kin
The Wellingtonia and the Redwood
The Gingko
The Araucaria
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Sir Herbert Maxwell
Containing Observations on Certain British and Exotic Trees
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Chestnuts ripen well and regularly in the southern English counties, though they are considerably smaller than those imported from the Continent. In Scotland we seldom have enough summer heat to bring them to maturity. The summers of 1911 and 1914, indeed, were long enough and hot enough to ripen them; but even so the nuts were so small that there was more patience than profit in collecting them.
Even though we cannot actually trace the introduction of this noble tree to our Roman conquerors, there is proof in Anglo-Saxon literature that it was known in England before the Norman conquest, for it receives mention by an early writer as the "cisten" or "cyst-beam," "cisten" being but a form of the Latin castanea. Chaucer (1340–1400) is the earliest English poet to mention it, the list of trees wherein he includes it being a very interesting one as showing the nature of English woodland in the fourteenth century.
