LE GRAND CEDRE D’HAMMERSMITH.
Inscriptions au revers : Comté de Middlesex// Circonférence au niveau du sol – 16 pieds. // Hauteur : —– 59 p. // Eténdue de ses branches —- 80 p. // La maison du fond a été habité par Cromwell // (Tiré de Sylva Britannica). // Frise du bord : Cèdre.

The subject taken from “Sylva Britannica, or Portraits of Forest Trees” by Joseph George Strutt (1784–1867) that pictures 50 special British trees in etchings and words:
THE GREAT CEDAR AT HAMMERSMITH.
This magnificent tree has every way a claim to the title of Great, being at this time one of the largest, the stateliest, and the most flourishing in the kingdom. Its stem, at the ground, is sixteen feet six inches in circumference, its height is fiftynine feet, and its branches cover an area of eighty feet in diameter.