The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-09-16
SOME NOTEWORTHY TREES.
They ARE Famous by Renson of Their Size
or some Incident Connected with
Them.


The largest apple tree in the United States
sat Cheshire. Conn. It Ia sixty feet high
and spreads with a diameter of hundred
feet. 1t bears fruit on one side OF the tree
at time, alternating year by year, and the
yield is about seventy-fve bushels.
Nine years ago. says the Sentinel, of
Madison, Dakota; "a prospector dropped a
whip at the door of II. N. Luce, in this
town, when Mr.. Luce stuck the whip into
the ground, where it took root and is now
tree with generous, spreading branches from
the trunk that measures twelve inches in
diameter
There is birch tree on the mountains
near Woodford, VT, that measures twenty,
four feet in circumference at the base.
On the Dater homestead, at Brunswick,
N. Y, there is m apple tree which is
believed to be 100 years old. 1t is ninety
feet in circumference and has been known
to bear thirty bushels of apples in a season.
The largest tree in Georgia stands near
the town of Washington. 1t is twenty feet
in circumference at the ground and twenty
four feet in circumference at the height of
a mans waist. 1t is seventy feet to the first
limbs and 155 feet in height. The first
Presbytery OF Georgia was held under Its
branches nearly 100 years ago.
I w. d. Remedy, of Winnsboro, s. c.,
planted in his yard on the Let of January
1884, weeping willow, the branch measur,
ing two feet in length, and one-fourth of an
inch in diameter. This tree, on July IS,
1885, measured fifteen feet three inches in
height and two inches in diameter six feet
from the ground
There Is white oak tree on the promises
Of VIM. Smith, near Pleasant Plains Church,
in Irwin county, Ca, that was planted by
the hand Of his grandfather over seventy
years ago. This tree was once topped and
is now about eighty feet in height, measures
seventeen feet in circumference at the small
est place on the trunk beneath the lowest
limbs and has foliage that spreads ninety
three feet through from side to side.
a" The old oak tree near the town line be.
tween Bristol and Birmingham, !" says Con.
necticut paper, is to be preserved by
proper care Of its roots and branches. This
is over 100 years old. Formerly the old
Bartelmee tavern stood opposite and was the
halfway house between New Cambridge and
West Britain {now Bristol and Birming-
ham). On the trunk Of the tree are the bull
let's Of the Revolution. An antiquary of the
Bartholomew family has placed on this tree
a suitable inscription. The opinion is en-
tertained that under this tree the first pre-.
liminary meeting of the town was held
Landlord Bartelmee and his tavern were the
great planets of $50 years ago and the othei
lesser satellites revolved around them"
Royal Marriage That did not Take Place.
When King Louis of Bavaria assembled
the throne he was handsome fellow Of
nineteen; he is old and wrinkled now, with
q fat, round belly, and dresses like third
rate tragedian and his Ministers soon ar
ranged match for him with an Austrian
archduchess. He allowed them to open the
negotiation and make all the arrangements
without raising any objections, only stipu-
lating that hundred young couple, all his
subjects, should be married on the same
day and at the same place as himself. But
when it came to fixing day for the cere-
monies he kept putting # OF with such per-
sistency that the archduchess finally got
angry, sent him back his love letters and
asked her papa's Ministers to find her an
other husband. The Bayarian Ministers
wanted to look around for another woman
as wife for their sovereign, but Louis posi-
lively refused. When it was represented
to him that the hundred couples who had
been designated to act as his nuptial cortege
were impatiently waiting to be united he
said; $ Well, let them wed if they are such
fools. As for me will remain a bachelor,
and Inever want to hear any one talk again
aboutmy getting married"