Famous trees
1 princess to queen here (8)
2 im in essex (9)
3 a sticky spread (7.9)
4 is very pretty (5.4)
7cars an d chevaux hete (7)
8 from the land of long white cloud (4.4)
9chocolate peanuts (6)
3 Marmalade is a tropical tree, and put with Treacle for which there is some recipies.
4 Answered as Lemon Tree from Lemon Tree very pretty and the Lemon flower is sweet- not singing anymore.
Agree with you Prof - why French?
As it is now 8 letters "Goodwood" - sort of tree"ish", would cover cars and horse racing - but does not explain the French.