The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-07-08
SOME rAaovs s,o TREES.
Australian ciaBt mat oysriep THOSE u
callfernla-Eusaiypia. coIe.ssA.

t@Ats'thf37 -AiataAlVtuf beaNAstat
New Yelf siinl
HlIere are theextfemes Of plant life
said . botauist holding o microscopic
slidsn one hand and q picture Of q
great trgo in the other. TINS Is a
diatom, one Of tho smallest vegetable
organisms, invisible to the naked eye,
while this, " louriShlng the picture, rs
tie largest tree aS 70 height in the
world"
"Ohe Of tho selloiaSf
no, was tic reply nele Sam
has done pretty w6ll With trees, but
when II comes 10 height tue Britbh
Lion takes the belt, rs the loftiest trees
ary found in the Australian dominion.
This picture Is a photograph Of one
found by atrareier in the Black range
OF erwiGk, and II Is estimated at 80
feet from the ground TO tho to2most
braneh. Think OF tia moment con.
tinuei the speaker. rive hundred
feet means a good deal. Itwould dwarf
the liarth0ldl statue; Trinity would
look like q telegraph polo compared 10
IL. tbs Brooklyn bridge would 10 no.
where; sIrnsburg cathedral, the high.
est building on the globe, would
30 tifty.four feet below tho birds
meats on the top branches, and, II the
Eiaut WAS placed by the side Of the pyr.
amid OF Chrops, the leaves OF the elea,
lyltls would still be two.ty feet above
II. That ! the kind OF trees they have
in Australia, and they arc undoubtedly
tbs laFgest on the globe, though II il
claimed that the California specimens
are more impressive from their greater
bulk.
Tho gum trees, as the Australian
gitnts AIRS called, are a comparatively
modern discovery, and for a long time
1t was impossible TO approach them, but
now roads arc broken, and travellers
Can ride directly to tue foot Of several.
Ono OF the FIRST known, o Kanni Cuca.
lyptus Elcal! Plus coloSSea) Of hotah.
ISIS, was discovered in a glen Of the
Warren river, western Australia When
found by nparly Of riders, II was pros.
trate upon tic ground, and four riders
abreast Uttered the trunk, that was es.
timalUd OF 100 feet IN length. Another
species, +. Amzgdalina, measured by
Boyle In tho gloomy forest Of Dauden.
oBg, was found 70 be 42O feet long,
while another, now growing on the
Black spur, ten miles from Healcsville,
is 100 feet high. These measurements,
you SEQ. aro far ahead Of the Calilornia
trees, one Of tho largest, that ] think Is
known as tho Father Of the Forest,
only measuring 1855 feet, and being no
feet In circumference at the base. The
ono called The Mother OF the Forest,
measures $50 feet In height, with a cir.
conference at the base Of ~ feet. When
they. ielled the famous Traveller in
1895, and, by the way, every man that
had q hand In it ought to have been
sent to Dry Tortugus, 1t took five or six
men nearly month to bring it TO the
ground, aud they had all kinds Of tools
to work with, pump augurs, wedges, and
everything you could think Of.
"Ror a good many years the trees
were subjected to all kinds Of indigni.
ties, and / have q list OF over thirty
names Of so-callNd civilized human DO.
ings that copied from the bark where
they Ind been carved. Near'y every.
body feels called upon 10 do this; but
the rest, who have no knife or are Toe
Ia y, have contented themselves with
building fires around the roots. Why
continued the excited botanist, 'upor
my word would as soon think Of cary
ing my name on my grcat.grandfather'
back, or OF burning my grandmother al
tho stake. as harming these trees.n