The Garden has an interesting paper on Yew trees, and their ages.

One at Fountaine Abbey in Yorkshire, was certainly a large tree of great age when the monastery was founded in 1132. The trunk of one is now 26 feet 6 inches in circumference, 3 feet from the ground. The Tisbury Yew, at Tisbury, Dorsetshire, is 37 feet in circumference. It is now hollow and 37 people have taken breakfast together in the interior. The Arlington is in the churchyard of that village, near Hounslow. It has been 50 or 60 feet high. The Darley Dale Yew, Derbyshire, also in a church yard, at 3 feet from the ground it is 28 feet round. The Mam-hilad Yew, in the churchyard of that name near Ponty pool, at 2 feet 6 inches from the ground is 29 feet 4 inches. The Gresford Yew, in that churchyard, near Wrexham, Derbyshire, is 22 feet at the ground, and 29 feet at 5 feet 2 inches, where the main branches separate. The Fortingal Yew, in Fortingal churchyard,near Glen Lyon in Perthshire, was, in 1769, 52 feet in circumference, but vandalism has taken away much of the famous tree to make drinking cups and other mementoes.

In the United States we have no very old trees, of course, but there is a noble fellow in German-town on the grounds of Amos Little, which was planted soon after the revolution; and there was, if not now, a very fine specmien on the grounds formerly of Miss Longstreth in King-sessing, which was planted by Young, who was the competitor of Bartram for the honors of being the " King's botanist," and who actually was the first to get the singular Dionaea or Venus Flytrap, to England alive. We have not seen this Yew for many years, but suppose the "march of improvement" will some day slay it, if it has not already done so.