The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 729
ided by those acquainted with thenature of the cypress, and who are able to measure it. The fact is, that we have neither scientific nor vulgar traditionswhich treat in a satisfactory manner of this living monument.It is 121 ft. in height; and its circumference, at 1 ft. from theground, is 22 ft.… … Cypress of Somma. six, planted so close together that in the course of centuriesthey have become united so as to appear but one tree. I, how-ever, maintain that it is but one plant; because, if it were a unionof several, however remote the period, and however perfect the Catalogue of Works on…
