In the Garden of George Pithill. The circumference at 3 feet from the ground is 15 feet
and its height is 60 feet.
Border: Elm.
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 CHIPSTEAD ELM
stands on a rising ground, in a retired part of the pleasure-garden of George Polhill, Esquire, of Chipstead Place, in Kent. It is sixty feet high ; twenty feet in circumference at the base; and fifteen feet eight inches, at three feet and a half from the ground. It contains two hundred and sixty-eight feet of timber ; but this bulk is comparatively small to what it would have been, had it not sustained the loss of some large branches towards the centre. Its venerable trunk is richly mantled with ivy, and gives signs of considerable age ; but the luxuriance of its foliage attest its vigour, and it is as fine a specimen of its species in full beauty as can be found. It may not be amiss to remark in this place, that the Elm is peculiarly liable to injury from the attacks of insects of the beetle kind; one of which in particular, the hylesinus destructor, of Fabricius, or
scolytus destructor, of Latreille, is peculiar to it, and is its most formidable enemy.