A CHESTNUT TREE
Sir,-In your issue of February 15 an illustration of a very large chestnut tree brings to my mind a similar tree in Fredville Park, Kent. So large was it (and I haven’t heard that it is not still growing there) that 20 people could sit down to tea in it. A rustic ladder led to the middle of the branches and a rustic table had been fixed there and planks across the limbs round it. At the bottom of the ladder was a receptacle for paper and rubbish with a notice pointing out that, as long as people used it, there would be no restriction to visitors. The tree overlooked the gardens of Fredville House, and the grand sight of many rhododendron bushes in bloom brought the majority of sightseers at that season. I’m sorry I haven’t a photo of the Chestnut Tree, which was locally spoken of as The Step Tree.
C. L.
DALE
Whangarei)_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 663, 21 March 1952, Page 5
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159A CHESTNUT TREE New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 663, 21 March 1952, Page 5
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