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A COMMUNICATION from Mr. Walter Money respecting two yew trees which were planted in the churchyard of Basildon, Berks, by Charles, Lord Fane, in 1726, has appeared lately in some of the papers (North Wilts Herald, October 4, 1889, and Standard), in which he refers to the dimensions recorded in the parish register, taken in 1780 and 1796, and again by my father in 1834. He adds his own observations on the growth taken this year. As I happen to have the original notes made by the late Prof. J. S. Henslow, dated “1834, August,” it may be not uninteresting to record them. He writes as follows:—
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HENSLOW, G. Yew Trees in Berks. Nature 40, 621 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040621a0
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