Local Provenance - origins unknown

摘要

In May this year I stood in a sheltered wooded valley in Falmouth in Cornwall. Looking at the trees I quoted to myself the age old saying "If the ash comes out before the oak we are bound to have a soak, but if the oak comes out before the ash we arein for a splash". I could see ash trees in full leaf whilst others were still in bud alongside each other. It was the same with the oaks. A beautiful mature oak showing all the characters of an English oak, and another with the characteristic traits of sessile oak, both in full leaf and again mixed with other oaks still in bud.