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The Shrew Ash in Richmond Park.
of that year. Sheen Lodge is seen in the distance. Although not taken from exactly the same standing point as Plate IV., the identity of the lower projecting elbow-like bough, after thirty-five years of growth, with the left-hand side bough of the tree in 1856, is pretty well shown by this view.
Plate VI.—The Shrew Ash, from a photograph taken in September, 1891, and exhibited at the Folklore Congress of that year. This view gives prominence to the rounded projection on the left-hand side, where one end of the "witch-bar" was attached to the tree, and also displays on the right-hand side the contrivance or conduit set up by the ash in its old age for conveyance of sap, which has preserved the vitality of the tree to the present day.
