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 389
that the queens adviserswill show that they are not without sympathy for the great mass of theirfellow-creatures. — Cond. SCOTLAND. Queen Marys Tree. — This memorable tree, which has braved the blast ofcenturies, yielded to the fury of the gale on Monday last. It stood at theeast end of the village… … ^£r^-ms,ii^sMii but we know that two men embracing its trunk at opposite sides could notmake their hands meet. It was commonly called Queen Marys Tree, though,it is probable, it was planted before her reign. It formerly stood within apark, but on widening the carriage road about ten or twelve years…
