Meetings With Remarkable Trees

An award-winning historian and renowned arborist offers a profusely illustrated survey of sixty distinctive, outstanding trees from Britain and Ireland, containing literate, colorful descriptions of the trees' characters, color photographs, and maps. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Thomas Pakenham's Meetings with Remarkable Trees received international acclaim. His other books include Remarkable Trees of the World, The Boer War, and The Scramble for Africa, which won the Alan Paton Award. He lives in London.

Introduction

6

(10)

NATIVES

British & Irish Giants

16

(14)

Incognito at Fredville

19

(2)

A Tree Like a Drawing by Thurber

21

(1)

Hoping for Immortality

22

(3)

The Squire's Walking Stick

25

(2)

The King Oak of King's County

27

(1)

Beeches on Borrowed Time

28

(2)

In Arcadia

30

(10)

Return of the Natives

32

(3)

The Pioneer of Rothiemurchus

35

(1)

Very Reverend Vegetables at Burnham

36

(4)

TRAVELLERS

Out of Europe

40

(8)

Dunkeld's Mother of Millions

42

(3)

Growing a New Head at Strone

45

(1)

The Best and the Worst of Limes

46

(2)

American Giants

48

(14)

Ossian's Douglas Fir

50

(2)

The Redwoods of Whitefield

52

(3)

Wellingtonias: New Giants for Old

55

(2)

Money-makers of Scone

57

(1)

The Tree That Longs to Get Away From Home

58

(3)

Tulips a Hundred Feet High

61

(1)

From The East

62

(12)

Storm-battered Cedars of Lebanon

64

(2)

Pick a Strawberry

66

(3)

Xerxes' Plane at Emmanuel

69

(2)

Hooker's Choice at Kew

71

(1)

Maples as Pink as a Shrimp

72

(2)

Mysterious Mothers

74

(6)

Solemn and Upright at Florence Court

77

(1)

Bastards are Best at Bryanston

78

(2)

Chinoiserie

80

(8)

Going Downhill for 60 Million Years

83

(1)

To Laugh or to Cry at Rowallane

84

(3)

Egrets or Flamingos?

87

(1)

A Whiff of the Jungle

88

(8)

Paradise Regained at Heligan

90

(3)

Tree Ferns as Blue as the Sea

93

(3)

SHRINES

Sacred Trees

96

(6)

Gloom or Bloom at Much Marcle

99

(1)

Among the Angels at Muckross

100

(2)

Poets' Trees

102

(8)

Wordsworth's Yews at Lorton and Borrowdale

105

(1)

The Tree That Did Not Go to Dunsinane

106

(2)

Commemorating a War Hero

108

(2)

Trees of Liberty

110

(8)

Martyrdom at Tolpuddle

112

(3)

The Arch-rebel's Oak

115

(3)

FANTASIES

Gateways & Homes

118

(12)

The Cave at Crowhurst

121

(2)

Tea in a Tree at Pitchford

123

(1)

Under the Trees at Welbeck

124

(5)

Pillars of St Edward's

129

(1)

Walls, Walks & Puzzles

130

(12)

The Hedge That Upstaged Emma Thompson

132

(3)

Noblesse Oblige at Meikleour

135

(1)

An Avenue of Puzzles at Bicton

136

(2)

Back from the Dead at Murthly

138

(3)

New Zealand to the Rescue

141

(1)

Towers & a Tomb

142

(6)

Plotting Darnley's Murder

145

(1)

Giants That Smell of Boot Polish

146

(2)

Weepers & Creepers

148

(14)

Anti-clockwise at Kew

151

(1)

Willow Pattern at Hyde Park

152

(3)

Multiplying Mourners at Knap Hill

155

(1)

Rootery at Wakehurst

156

(6)

SURVIVORS

Relics & Ruins

162

(18)

Hunting Herne's Oaks at Windsor

164

(4)

Evelyn's Great Chestnut'

168

(2)

The Prisoners of Crom

170

(3)

A Refuge by the Runway

173

(1)

A Family Pet at Bowthorpe

174

(2)

Praying for Gilbert White's Yew

176

(3)

Death at Chatsworth

179

(1)

The Newcomer

180

(6)

The Old Tree from Mo-Tao-Chi

182

(4)

Gazetteer

186

(2)

Bibliography & Illustrations

188

(1)

Index

189

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Meetings With Remarkable Trees

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