TREES IN ART.
The ingenious editor of the Tree Qoarterly has been holding an exhibition. of drawings of trees at the Fine Arts in New Bond Street. It is, I think, the first time I ever saw an art exhibition devoted wholly to one subject and in one medium, and yet there was no monotony, nor is the subject nearly exhausted. Most of the drawings, in pencil, were selected for their artistic value ; and this, perhaps, was the reason why few famous trees found a place: I could find only one, the huge horse chestnut in Kew, which several people have assured me is the biggest in the world. My own belief is that I know a bigger or at any rate a finer, still flourishing in spite of its great age. It grows at Abington, near Cambridge; and is known to be over 300 years old.
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