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Updated: May 17, 2025
"I should like to go. I've never been. Do we go to Chelsea Pier? Down Fernshaw Road will be the nearest." "We'll go down Beaufort Street," he decided. He divined that she had suggested Fernshaw Road in order to avoid passing the end of the Grove, where her father might conceivably see them. Well, he was not going out of his way to avoid her father.
To get a view of the big gum-trees, one visits the Fernshaw Mountain district. We are told of one fallen monarch, which was measured by a government surveyor, having a length upon the ground of four hundred and seventy-four feet. The Pyramid of Cheops is hardly as high as was this tree when it stood erect. The average height of these marvels is from three hundred to four hundred feet.
In the north of England, where it is much used as a killing bait for trout, the insect is commonly known by the name of 'bracken-clock, a name of the same import with the Staffordshire term 'fernshaw, each signifying 'fern-beetle." Another correspondent says Scarabaeus horticola, called "the chovy" in Norfolk, is there deemed very injurious to apple-trees, and other trees and plants, as it feeds both on leaves and all the parts of the flower.
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