Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-11-19
GA.WEDNEsDAY, NOVEMBER 49, 1854 NUMBER
REMARKABIE TREES.

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REMARKABLE TREES.
Some OF the Notable Afonarchs OF the For
E est stiu Ex,stipg.
One-third Of the land surface of our
planet, says the Boston Transcript, is
covered with trees. The largest treo in
the world is situated in Mascoli, near
the foot of Mount Etna. and is called
aThe Chestnut Tree OF a Hundred
Horses" and is believed to be the old.
est tree in the world. Its name arose
from the report that Queen Jane Of
Aragon, with her principal nobility,
took refuge from violent storm under
its branches. At one time it was sup
posed that it consisted of o clump OF
trees united, but on digging away the
earth, the root was found entire and at
no very great depth. Five enormous
branches rise from one trunk, which is
2l2 feet in circumference. A part 81
the trunk has been broken away, and
y y S5ntsl1 I sAe iioet i sEesp, lee s q e admit
two carriages driving abreast through
it. It still bears abundance Of fruit,
and its collectors have built hut with
in the trunk, the better to promote
their proceedings. AtTortworth, Eng
land, there exists chestnut tree meas
uring, at four feet from the ground, six
ty feet in circumference, although at
the present time it is nearly sylvan
ruin. A fig tree stands on the north
erly bank of the River Johnstone, in
East Australia, in latitude ~ degrees,
longitude 151 degrees, near Brisbane,
measuring three feet from the ground,
$50 feet, and at fifty five feet, where it
sends off great branches, eighty feet in
circumference. There lies upon Mount
Bawbaw, Gippsland, Southeast Austria
liza, a gum tree nncaeuring 46O feet as it
lfes where it was broken off at the top,
and it is calculated to have stood $40
high; it measures six feet in circum-
ference. In Bougouderch, near Con-
stantinople, is plane tree measuring
l49 feet in circumference. At Bajak,
Bournarbashi,, Asia Minor, is pond
overshadowed by three gigantic plane
trees, the trunk OF one of which, one
foot from the ground, measures forty
The largest tree in the United States
stands near Bear Creek, on the north
side of Tule River, California. II meas
ures l40 feet in circumference. In
Tuolume grove. Nevada, stands "The
Dead Giant Redwood Tree," measur-
ing 119 feet in circumference, which
has been so entirely followed out by
long use as q chimney that the road
makers could not resist the temptation
OF completing the work of camp-fires,
so they have cut great archway right
through the farther side of the poor
dead stump, and led the road through
it, so that now the high, crowded coach
daily passes through the very heart Of
the great tree, which may have been
young in the days of Julius Caesar.
There are thirteen other trees standing
near it measuring from seventy-two to
ninety-six feet in circumference. The
"Grizzly Giant" the monarch Of the
Msriposa grove, measuring ninety-two
feat isa oi. i.cuxsfrI cnCc. The TulaTo-
Fresno forest, SO called from being sit
uated in those two counties California J
extending seventy miles in length, with
o width in some places of ten miles, con-
sists mainly Of big trees, with a multi
tude of smaller ones, measuring from
six to 100 feet.
Near Santes, in France, stands an
oak tree measuring ninety-one feet in
circumference. At HOLLYWOOD, near
Bromley, England, stands an oak tree
with root projecting on one side into
the shape Of settee. Seated upon
that root, William Pitt and William
Wilberforce held together CONVERSE
tion, as result of which the latter, in
1882. brought the question of the abo-
lition of the slave trade before the House
of Commons. The tree is still known
as the Wilberforce oak. Pliny
"a. d. 23) tells us of q plane tree
growing in his time, which was in itself
forest. The Governor of Lucia gave
an entertainment to his friends in the
hollow trunk, which is eighty feet in
circumference. John Dowd discovered
in Calaveras County, California, grove
Of 103 trees covering o space of fifty
acres, measuring seventy to ninety-six
feet in circumference. Throuhout all
England there are oak trees of remark
able size The "Cowthorp Oak, +" on the
banks of the Nidd in Yorkshire, meas
ures at the ground seventy-eighty fee I
in circumference. The famous tree
called the "Charter Oak. near Hartford,
Connecticut which fell August 81. 1856.
was thirty-three feet ID circumference
at the ground, and Il fell SO as to leave
eight feet of stump on one side and six
feet on the other. a double trunked
oak tree is standing in Agarden in South
Beaver, Pennsylvania which begins
at the root with single trunk.
This divides into two, about one
foot from the ground and
continues thus fct ten fest, and then be.
comes united again. Each OF the twin
trunks, at the point Of division, meas.
ures three test ii circumference.