Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-12-21
sEcoNp.oRowTH PINES.
| Remarkable Young Forest In y New
Brunswick Cemetery.

I hcmnrknbie tounk fofcst IN " WV
Brunswick Cemetery.
II 10 seldom that the mutllation Of
trees adds to their impressiveness. but
4 cemetery in st. Stephen, n. d.. con-
,ains some hundreds Of white pines, OF
unusual size and singular beauty.
which show the curious spectacle OF
branching. some feet from the ground.
into numerous great limbs. sometimes
ms much as feet In circumference. A
hundred or SO of these trees have ut
tanned large size, the most massive Of
them being IS feet high and II feet and
more In circumference, and the aspect
o; the huge horizontal or perpendicular
branches, laden with heavy follnge, and
the rugged. knotty holes from which
they spring, Is striking in character.
while they have certain dignity and
solemnity especially befltting a ceme-
terry.
As the ground on which they stand
is supposed to 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 SO to 0i concentrIc
rings, SO that their age is less thnn 100
years, and they are still full Of health
and vigor, ind promise to endure for
wears to come. Around them have
sprung up hundreds of other stately
trees, often or Z feet IN girth, , feet
from the ground; and the forest ceme-
terry has nn unusual charm from the
solennizing effect Of these noble pines.
through which the wind ever murmurs
a gentle requiem for the departed.
Impressive rs is the spectacle Of the
lofty unbranched trunks. which now
and then Indicate the site of n primcval
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 its undulating surface,
with n sentiment akin to awe. The
checking of the upward growth in their
youth has caused some OF the trees to
send up as many us fourteen branches
each one of the size and proportions
of leader, and some of them or
feet In girth. One of the trees shows
a sort of Siamese-twin connecting link
between two mighty trunks which rise
almost perpendicularly to consider
able height.
The keeper estimates that there are
1000 good-sized pines in the Enclosure,
several hundred Of which are between
and 10 feet in circumference. OF the
curious branching trees OF great size
there are 100, the largest Of which Is IL
feet inches in girth, with IA limbs 40
to 60 feet long. some of them feet in
circumference. Its height is 70 feet.
Another, which is Is feet high. Inns u
girth of 10 feet. Adjacent pines, less
remarkable in growth, measure from
feet inches to feet 6 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 ST. Croix river, with
chains OF wooded hills marking its
course. From the river the ground on
.he British side rises in n series OF
ridges. on one OF which the cemetery
il situated, at some distance from the
busy little town of St. Stephen. which
connects by bridge with Calais. Me.
The whole river is remarkable for its
fine landscape effects, enhanced by the
rich coloring of its red granite shores
and beaches. Its great tides. coming
from the Buy of Fundy. rise at st.
Stephen to the height Of 2S feet, and
recede. leaving but thread of n stream
to Indicate it's course, though II is
quarter of mile in width ut its head
waters, broadening ut its mouth into
Passamnquoddy bay, with 600 islands
breaking its imposing surface.-Garden
pnd Forest.