Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-07-18
REMAIsKABLE TREES.
1hAsc Interesting from Size aud from
Historical AssOc!a lions.

Historical Associations.
One-third of the land surface of onr planet
5 c1vcred with trees. The largest tree in
he world is situated IN Mascot, near the
DOT of Mt. Elna, and is called 'rhe Chest
nut Tree of Hundred HORSES" and is
believed to he the oldest 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 supposed that |
ii consisted of a Ciump of trees united, but |
on digging away the earth the root was
found entire, and a. no great depth. FIVE |
brai ChCS rise from one trunk, |
which is 2l2 feet In circumference. a part
of the trunk has been broken away, and its
interior is hollow, aud large enough t. con-
tain flock of sheep, or to admit two carrln- |
ges driven abreast through It. IL still hears
OF fruit and its collectors have
built a hut within the trunk, the better lol
promote their proceeding. AT Tortworth,
England, there exists chestnut tree meas
uiing, 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 norhelly bank OF
the river tombstone, in east Austria
liza, in latitude 81 longitude 81, near Bris
banc, measuring, three feet from tl.c ground,
100 feet, and at litty-nvc feet, where 1t sends
of great branches, eighty feet in citcGmier-
cncc. There lies upon Mount BawDaw,
Gippsland, Southeast Australia, gum tree
measuring $50 feet as it lies where it was
broken of at the top, and 1t is calculate 10
have stood 500 hgL; it measures sixty rect III
eli cum ercucr. In B)upouderoh, hear Con-
staninupe, is plane tree measuring ll9
feet in circumference. At Bajak Bouruar-
bashi, Asia Minor, is Il pond overshahowed
by three gigantic plane trees, the trunk of
one OF which, one foot from the ground,
measures furty-three feet in circumference.
The largest tree in the United States stands
near Bear Creek, on the north SIDE of 1ulc
River, Cal. 1t measures 14D feet in clrcum-
ference In Tuulumnc Grove, New, stands
| "thc Dead Giant Redwood Tree, measur-
ing 1l9 feet in circum terence, which has
been SO entirely followed by long use rs u
| chimney that the rUa,l-makers could not re-
sist the temptation Of completing the work
| OF the campfire SO they have cut great
arch1ay 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 s,andinc ar it,
measuring from scveutvLwo to niuely-.iX
ltet in circumference.
The "Grizyjy Gmu,." the monarch If
Marlposa Grove. measures ninety two feet
| in circumference Tue Tuliro Fresno forest
So called from being situated in those two
counties California;, extending seventy
miles in length, with width in some places
of ten miles, consists mainly Of big trees
with n multitude of smaller oue
measuring from six To one hun
dred and twenty feet ia ciruum
conference. Near Santcs. in France, audi
an oak tree measuring ninety-one feet il
circumference. AT HOLLYWOOD. p,ar Bromlc,
England. stands an oak tree with a roo
nroi4ctiur on one side into the shape of
setiee. seated upop that root William Pit
and William WiIberlOice held together
conversation. rs n result of which the latter
an Nav 10 1850. BROUGHT the question of tin
labohtl0n of the slave trade before the llDus,
Iot Commons. The ire, is still known N
the Wiburfyrce Oak. pipy CA. ID 90
tells liz Of a plane Tree. growing in his time
which was in itself a forest. Tie gOvcrnO
of Lucia gave an entertainment to his friend
in tine hollow trunk. which is eighty feet il
circumference. John DJwd discovered il
Calaveras county California grove of on
hundred and three trees. covering "a space q
dtty acres. measuring from seventy to ninety
six feet in circumference. Throughout u
Enpland there are oak trees Of remarkabl
sue, The "Cowtborp Oak" on the banks O
the Nidd. in Yorkshire. measures at tn
Ground scycn1y.elpht feet in circumf renee
The famous tree called the "Char,er Oak,
near Hartford. Conn, which fell August 81
ts56 was thirty-thrrt feet i'm clrcumlcrenc
at tha rround and il frll s. rs to leave eigt
fleet of stump on OF side and six feet on til
lo,her. A doube-truuk, d oak tree is stand
inr in - rar,ien in Snit Beaver. Pa. who
Lr3ins nj the root with n single lrun
ms divides into TWO about one foot fror
,br oround contipu, Inns for ten feet an
thnn Incomes united nroin. Each of til
tu',n ,Iunls at The noint Of division. mca
nrns three feet in circumference.
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