The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-12-29
Tho Largest Tree in the World.

In Nelson's Scientific and Technical
Reader there is an account, abridged
from Hutching's "Scenes and Wonders
in California" of a grove of trees. This
grove is situated on the watershed be-
tween the San Antonio branch of the
CaIaveras river and the north fork of the
Stanislaus river, in latitude SO deg. and
longitude 100 deg. 10 min. west, at an
elevation of 1870 feet above the sea
level, and st distance of ninety-seven
miles from Sacramento city and eighty
seven from Stockton. From specimens
of the wood, cones and foliage, Prof.
Lindley, England, considered it as form
ing a new genus and named it "Wel-
lingtonia gigantea," but Mr.. Lobb, who
had spent several years in California,
and had devoted himself to this branch
of study, decided it to belong to the
"TaXodium " family, and referred it to
the old genus "Sequoia sempervirens.
1t is now generally known as Sequoia
gigantea, popularity called "Welling-
tonia," and by Americans Washing
tonia gigantea." Within an area of fifty
acres, there are 102 large trees, twenty
of which exceed twenty-five feet in di-
ameter, and are consequently over sew
enty-five feet in circumference. The
" Father of the Forest" the largest OF
the group, lies PROSTATE and half buried
in the soil 4; it measures at the root
10 feet in circumference, is 200
feet to the first branch, and
from the trees which were broken
by its fall is estimated to have been 435
feet in length 800 feet from the roots it
is eighteen feet in diameter. The ''Big
Tree was bored off some years since
with pump augers and then wedged
down the stump, which stands five and
a half feet above the soil, is sound to
the core, and has been used as ball
room. This tree was ninety-six feet in
at the ground, and 302
feet high. The " Mother of the Forest"
was stripped of its bark in 1854, for ex-
hibition in the New England States.
and now measures, without the bark,
feet in circumference sew
enty feet up it is thirty-nine and half
feet (also without the bark its heights
521 feet. The q" Burnt Tree, F" prostrate,
Is estimated to have been 800 feet high
when standing, and ninety-seven feet in
it measures thirty-nine
and half feet across the roots. Her
:ules is ninety-fve feet in circumfer-
ence, and 800 feet high. The "Pio-
leGI A1bll4s DlOhGA O4A LOU
feet from the ground, measures
tlirty-nine feet in diameter, but,
owing to its being hollow, and its
surface uneven, its average is not quite
equal to that. Fourteen other trees av-
srage 29I feet high, and seventy-eight /
and half feet in circumference. 1t is |
from the number of concentric I
ayers of wood IN these trees, each layer /
IF which is supposed to be the growth
IF a single year, that their age Is almost !
;, 900 years, considerably younger than
he one on exhibition. This grove is
llso described in an amusing manner 10y /
~ I. W. Hinchliff, III. A, f. Il G. s.,
n his cover the Sea and Far Away
SIG. From his account, the trees oc-
,upy belt 3, 200 feet long and 700 feet
vide, which contains from ninety to leo 1
Iuisoias of the largest size the highest
e 325 feet, and the diameter of one
which think must be the big Tree y /
5 twenty seven feet. At six feet from
he ground, he saws, the survey party
ounted the rings of this section, and 4
0und the number TO DO ], 255 thin
rec, he thinks, is one of the finest in
he grove. u