DESTRUCTION OF TREES AT HOME.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1484, 7 January 1882, Page 4

DESTRUCTION OF TREES AT HOME.

_ _^_ SoMt, interesting statistics as to the destruction of trees in the October huriicane hare just been published by the "Journal ot Forestry." In Berkshire alone no less tli i 2000 trees h.nc been senously injiucd. Old elms, hoodies, thorns and birches have sufteicd scveiely ; but English oaks foun neaily one-tliiid of the tot.il number thrown down or bidly broken. In the iNoith ot England tlic ruin was even more sci ions. It is computed that some 4000 trcs were injured m the parks and pleasuie-giounds at Alnwiok. In that jwit of Shensood which is called Birklands, the havoc among the fine old oaks and biiohes has been almost unexampled, while the young plantations at Thoresby have foitunately suffered but little. At Welbeck the Spanish chc&lnut trees ha\o been laid low by regiments, and the poplais ha\e been terribly thinned, as mcII as the oaks. At tStamford the f.unous lime tree, said to have been planted by Queen Elizabeth during one of her many visits to Eurlcigh, has been almost completely wrecked. The trunk was divided into four pai ts about so\eu feet fiom the ground, each of the di\ isiuns being as lai ge as an oulinaiy tree. Tlnec of the->e has been torn away, lening onl\ tlie smallest one jikl some sm.ill bi.inthus icmaining. At RulToul sonic line elms were uprooted; but p 1 h.ip , on no deme&ne except Alnwitk and Welbeck has such dainagj boeii done as at Woiksop Manor. At "Worktop and Clumbei, which, like AVelbeck, ac among the •'dukeries" carved out ot that ancient forest which once evtendod from Nottingham almost to Donc.istci, the trees came crashing down m e\ory diiection, the Spanish chestnuts, o.ik--, and biiohes .suffering most wneiely. The .shade of Dr Johnson would smile ,it a report of the dninaffc done toticu-> m Scotland, )>ut it is nevertheless tine that some ir>oo were blown down on the Glamis estates nlonc. The greatest d.siter of all ocourrcd, however, on the Tynninghamc estate«, in Jladdingtoiibhire, A\liL'ie the damage i\ computed <it m mij' thousands ot pounds. Unfortunately such losvjs cannot bo swiftly icpanod. Trees icipiire time for (lovclopiiicnt especially those of the most valuable kind, and the monaic'is of the forest cannot be quickly replaced. IJ^ech trees appear m all places to have weathered Liie storm \\ ell, thus confirming the eailnr and necessarily hasty conclusions arrived at, while oak and elm, lime and bitch, have been riven to atoms by the tempest. — Daily Neat,.