The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-19
Scraps Along The Strands.

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flood tide of pleasure to our favorite place
of resort has passed, yet the grand old
river is here and these fall winds whiten
it with commerce, and the lockers ON at
Pennsgrove still have amusement. A ship
load of Germans must have landed for | see
them in every direction like wild pigeons
after a storm, and when one of these sons
of toll lands in America he means work and
business. Few think are in the county
house.
A family consisting of father and three
sons named Crane, may be seen every Sun
day along Oldman's Island fishing disre-
garding law and right. They have SPLEEN
did fishing rig and if they belonged to the
low and degraded they would have been
| looked after, but they stand high and the
| fish wardens let them pass without punish
ment
| Edward Harris has commenced his new
house on high building lot and perhaps
will escape many diseases. Too many are
obliged to build on badly drained lots in
| Pennsgrove.
Near Swedesboro there is a field of large
pines that has corn ridges i'll it, yet very
old lady told me she remembered its being
in cultivation and still farther back when
it was an oak woods. In parts of southern
Ohio a forest of umixed locust trees follows
the destruction of ordinary mixed forests.
Dwight in his Travels gives an account OF
the appearance of fine growth of hickory
on lands in Vermont, which has been per-
mitted to lie i'll waste when no such trees
were known in the primitive forest within
a distance of fifty miles. Caesar atfirms
that in his time both the beech and fir were
wanting in England, but both we
| 1-nnxr hau aho,,nAa1 tbara fnr
many centuries. / have known elegant
cedar swamps after they were cut off,
produce only naples. | saw a long,
large, deep ditch at Clayton, at the bottom
We're ends of long logs barred by the exca-
walton and wash and the long part yet
covered six feet with earth, this evidently
is all accumulated since the trees have
fallen. A remarkable fact in regard to
buried stumps at Cape Island was related a
few years ago by DIR. Marcy of that place.
1t was observed by himself several years
SINCE Immediately after violent storm,
which had washed the earth out very low
on the strand in front of the boarding
house When the tide was out he saw a
large number of stumps upon the sand
They evidently grew there as the bark was
on the roots, and even rootlets were to be
seen. The next tide buried them again
and they have never been seen SINCE. And
now this leads us ON to talk of the an
tiquity of trees. Gilpin in his Forest
Scenery speaks of 900 years as no great
age for oaks The Presidents chair at
Oxford was made out of oak said to be SOC
years old. The Spanish chestnut in Glouces-
tershire is called the Oldest tree in England,
| it is 10 yards in compass and it is said King
John held Parliament beneath it. A yew
that was dug up from bog in Queens
county was proved by its rings to have
been 545 years of age. For the last BOO
years it had grown so slow that 100 rings
were within an inch. Tradition says the
cypress at Stamina is covered with Chris
tianity and historians think it was there
in the days of Caesar. Napoleon, for its
sake bent the road out of its straight line.
John W. Barber informs us in his English
travels. that Qeen Elizabeth once dined
beneath the shadow of the Crouch Oak in
the vicinity af Chertsey in England. And
now all aglow with enthusiasm, for we
love the mighty trees, our imagination
bounds away to the monarchs of the Cali
tornia forests. They have no history, but
there they stand looking skyward -four
hundred feet. bathing their branches i'll the
in the earth four thousand years. They
| lived when Abraham was buried and flour
ished when his descendants marched out of
Egypt, and were old when Solomon built
the immortal temple, witnessed the birth
of Greece and Rome and still stand to-day
botanical wonders, peering into the mighty
future when three hundred millions of peo-
pie shall have made America what she may