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Description: | Etching by Heywood Sumner in the Artist's edition (1883) of John R Wise, 'The New Forest: its history and scenery', p. 83. Heywood Sumner in 'The New Forest', 1924 (p. 50-1) wrote that "The old oaks along the course of the stream in Queen's Bower are specially characteristic of the growth of these trees in the Forest". He here quoted Percival Lewis writing in 1811: "They do not grow to any considerable height, as oaks usually do in richer soils, but rather extend their branches horizontally, and in most irregular forms: the consequence that results from it is that the timber is more particularly adapted to what shipbuilders term knees and elbows, and on that account becomes more valuable." Sumner thought that Lewis's description still held good, even though "oak no longer rules the wave."
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Lewis, Percival. 1811. Historical Inquiries, concerning Forests and Forest Laws: with topographical remarks, upon the ancient and modern state of the New Forest. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | New Forest tree oak Queen's Bower Wood Queen's Bower | Temporal: | start=1882-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Heywood Sumner | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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