Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-17
REMARKABLE TREES.
Some of the Notable NIOnarchs of the
Forest Still Existing.

in Mascoli, near the foot of Mount
Etna, and is called ''rhe Chestnut Tree of
a Hundred Horses" and is believed to be
the oldest tree in the world. Its name
arose from the report that Queen Jane of
AragOn, with her principal nobility, took
refuge from a violent storm under it's
branches. At one time it was supposed
that 1T consisted of a clump of trees
united, but on digging away the earth the
root was found entire, and at no great
depth. Five enormous branches rise
from one trunk, which is 2l2 feet in cir
conference. A part of the trunk has been
broken away, and its interior is hollow,
and large enough to contain a flock of
sheep, or to admit two carriages driving
abreast through it. 1t still bears abun-
dance of fruit and its collectors have built
hut within the trunk, the better to pro-
mote their proceedings. At TOrtwOrth,
England, there exists a chestnut tree
measuring, at four feet from the ground,
sixty feet in circumference, although at
the present time it is nearly sylvan ruin.
A fig tree stands on the northerly bank Of
the River tombstone, in East Australia,
in latitude 81 degrees, longitude Isl de-
grees, 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, Gipps-
measuring $50 feet as it lies where it was
broken OFF at the top, and it is calculated
to have stood 520 high; it measures six
feet in circumference. In BOugOuderch,
near COnstantinOple, is plane tree meas
uring 149 feet in circumference. At Ba-
jak BOurnarbashi, Asia Minor, is a pond
oVershadOwed by three gigantic plane
trees, the trunk Of one of which, one foot
from the ground, measures forty-three
feet in circumference.
The largest tree in the United States
stands near Bear Greek, on the north
side Of Tule River, Cal. 1t measures 140
feet in circumference. In TuOlumne
Grove, New, stands "The Dead Giant
Redwood Tree" measuring 119 feet IN cir
conference, which has been so entirely
followed by long use as chimney that
the rOadmakers could not resist the temp
tatiOn Of completing the work of camp
fires, so they have cut a 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 Cesar. There are thirteen
other trees standing near it measuring
from SeVenty-tWO TO nineuy-siX feet in
circumference. The GRIZZLY Giant" the
monarch of MaripOsa Grove, measures
ninety-two feet in circumference. The
4GSLO lOICSL. 81 CdAAGA nun BGlltS
situated in those two countries (CalitOT-
MAJ, extending seventy miles in length,
| with width in some places Of ten miles,
consists mainly Of big trees, with multi
| tude of smaller ones, measuring from six
/ to 40 feet in circumference.
Near Santes, in France, stands an oak
/ tree measuring ninety-One feet in circum-
| ference. 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 to-
! gether a conversation, as a result of
/ which the latter, May -, 1889, brought
/ the question of the abolition of the slave
! trade before the House Of Commons. The
/ tree is still known as the Wherefore
4 Oak. Pliny 4. d. 23), tells us Of plane
! tree, growing In his time, which was in
i itself a 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 a grove Of
! 103 trees. covering a space of fifty acres,
measuring seventy to ninety-siX feet in
! circumference. Throughout all England
there are oak trees of remarkable size.
/ The "COWthOrp Oak on the banks of the
| Nidd, in Yorkshire, measures at the
/ ground seYenty-eight feet in circumter-
/ ence. The famous tree called the ''Char-
! ter Oak" near Hartford. Conn.,, which
! fell Aug. q. 1856. was thirty-three feet IN
/ circumference at the ground, and It fell SO
! as to leave eight feet OF stump on
1 one side and six feet on the
other. A dOuble-trunked oak tree is
standing in a garden in South Beaver,
| Pa, which begins at the root with sim
| gle trunk. This divides into two about
/ one foot from the ground, continues thus
| for ten feet, and then becomes united
! again. Each of the twin trunks, at tue
point Of division, measures three feet in
| circumference.
At Enys, in Cornwall, is a wych-elm,
| which was planted originally on the left
side of a stream, but having from some
| unknown cause been laid PROSTATE the
trunk fell on the opposite side of the
| stream, where II took root, and, rising
again, has acquired such dimensions that
it covers an area of One-siXth of an acre.
| The main stem, which now forms natu-
raj bridge across the stream, is ten feet in
circumference, and the three trunks
which rise from the right bank of the
/ stream measures severally eight and a
| half. six feet, and five feet and eight
inches in circumference. An engraving
Of it may be seen in ''JOhn's Forest Trees
of Great Britain,' page 232. There is an
| elm tree in the South of England which
measures siXty-ene feet in circumference.
| On the Hubbard farm in North AndOVer,
measuring twenty-seYen feet in cLrcum-
| ference. 4 barberry bush has taken root
| in a notch twenty feet from the ground,
which can be remembered by some Of the
Oldest residents during their bOyhOOd. AT
bingham, Mass, near the former site OF
the Old Colony House, is an elm tree
| measuring twenty-five feet in circumfer-
ence. The ''WashingtOn Elm" in Cam
bridge, which has completed two csEtu-
rles Of existence, measures fourteen feet in
| circumference. Never was tree cherished
with greater care, but its days are num-
bered. A few years, more or less, and,
like PENIS Treaty Elm" and the famous
Charter Oak, it will be numbered with the
| things that were. One of it's stout limbs
has been recently sawed off to prevent
danger to travellers, and it will probably
close its existence with the present cen
turY~
There is a Cir tree growing near the
baths of AlliaZ, Switzerland, surrounded
by a forest which it overtOps more than
thirty feet. The trunk is thirty feet in
| circumference at the base. BIT about a
yard from the ground it puts out on the
South side seven OffshOOts which have
grown into trunks as strong as those of
the other trees Cf the forest. Bent and
gnarled at the bottom, their trunks soon
Strengthened themselves up and rise per-
pendieqlarly and parallel to the main
stem. This feature is, perhaps, not
| wholly unparallel8I; DuC another most
curious fact is that the largest two Oftha
side trunks are connected with the princi-
pal by acknowledgements braces resem-
bling girders. The space between the
rough flooring formed by tie growing to-
| gether Of the OffshOots at their point of de-
/ parture and the girSer limbs is large
| enough to admit of building g comfortable
/ hermit's hut within it.
At Prilly. near Lausanne, is a lime
| tree measuring, five feet from the ground,
| twenty-three feet in circumference. The
| proclamation Of the Reformation was
posted on its trunk in 1880. Lamberts
| pine on the northwest coast Of America
attains the age of !, 400 years, and trees Of
! LOO years are not uncommon. In Nor
| fOlkshire there is famous pine tree meas
! uring foTty-eight feet in circumference.
I At Furstenfeld Germany, in a church
yard, there stands linden tee forty-tve
( feet in circumference. 1t is supposed to
/ be 1000 years Old. a remarkable olive
! tree stands near MaglianO, Italy, meas
Iuring thirty feet IL circumference.
In LOmbardy there is a cypress tree
/ which is said to have been planted in the
| year of our SaviOur's birth. There is even
ar ancient record that it was growing in
| the time of Julius Caesar. 1t is the same
frcp AGAINST which ErauciS / of France