The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13
SSCoND.GRowTH PINES.
A Remarkable Young Forest In . New
BrunSwick Cemetery.

FOREST IN = new
Brunswick Cemetery.
II is seldom that the mutilatIon OF
trees adds 20 their impreSSiveness, bus
cemetery in ST. stephen. \. r.. con-
;ains some hundreds of white pines. Of
unusual size and singular beauty,
which show the curious spectacle Of
branching. some 5 feet from the ground.
INFO numerous great limbs. sometimes
rs much Is feet IN circumference. \
hundred or SO Of these trees have at
tanned large size. the most massive OF
them being IS feet high aud ii feet and
more in circumference. and the aspect
OF the huge horizontal or perpendicular
branches, laden with heavy foliage, and
the rugged, knotty holes from which
they spring, is striking in character,
while they have a certain dignity and
so!emnity especially betting q cems-
terry.
AS the ground on which they stana
is supposed 10 have been burned over
IN 1901, when the adjacent country was
laid waste by fire, the trees are all OF
second growth Such of them as have
been cut show from 80 10 Oh concentrlo
rings, so that their age is less than 100
years, and they are still full of health
and vigor, and promise TO endure for
years 10 come. Around them have
sprung up hundreds of other stately
trees. often or feet in girth. feet
from the ground; and the forest ceme-
sery has tn unusual charm from the
solemnizing effect of these noble pines.
through which the wind ever murmurs
a gentle requiem for the departed.
Impressive as Is the spectacle OF thu
lofty unbranched trunks. which now
and then indicate the site OF primeval
forest in Maine or New Brunswick,
there is something in the character of
these distorted giants more imposing
still, so that every visitor TO this WOOD
land burial place wanders through its
shades, over the soft brown needles
which carpet it's undulating surface,
with a sentiment akin 10 awe. The
checking of the upw ard growth in thsis
youth has caused some of the trees 10
send up many as fourteen branches
each one of the size and proportions
OF leader, and some Of them or 9
feet in girth- One Of the trees shows
a sort OF Sismese twin connecting link
between two mighty trunks which rise
almost perpendicuisrly 10 u consider
able height.
The keeper estimates that there are
L 600 good-sized pines in the Enclosure.
several hundred OF which are between
and 10 feet in circumference. or the
curious branching trees OF great size
there are 100. the largest OF which - IL
feet inches In girth, with Ia limbs "a
20 60 feet long, some Of them feet Ia
circumference. Its height Is 10 feet.
Another, which is rs feet high. has =
girth of 10 feet. Adjacent pines. Iess
remarkable IN growth, measure from
7 feet inches 20 . feet inches round
Fine. well-kept gravel roads wind
among these giants. And from certain
open spaces OF rising ground there are
noble views of the 81. Croix river. with
chains OF wooded hills marking ia
course. From the river the ground on
the British side rises in series OF
ridges, on one Of which the cemetery
j. situated, at some distance from tbs
busy little town of 81. stephen. which
connects hy bridge with Csiais. Ne.
Tbs whole river - remarkable for its
fine landscape effects, enhanced by thu
Tich coloring OF its red granite shor.s
and beaches Iis great tides. coming
from the Bay OF Fnndy, riss at ~.
stephen po the height Of q feet. and
Tecede. leaving but thread Of a stream
10 indicate it, course, though j. ia q
quarter Of mile ia width at iis bead
waters, broadening 81 its mouth iHta
bay. with 90 islands
breaking Sc imposing surfaces .--t5arsiea
and Forest.