Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1896-01-09
sECoND.eRowTH PINES.
4 Remarkable Young Forest in New
brunswick Cemetery.

4 Remarkable Young Forest in New
brunswick Cemetery.
1t is seldom that the mutilation OF
trees adds to their imprcssivcness, but
cemetery in st. Stephen, n. b., con-
tains some hundreds of white pines, of
unusual size and singular beauty,
which show the curious spectacle OF
branching, some 8 feet from the ground,
into numerous great limbs, sometimes
as much as feet in circumference. A
hundred or so of these trees have at
tanned large size, the most massive OF
them being rs feet high and II feet and
more in circumference, and the aspect
o; 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 certain dignity and
oolemnity especially betitting 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 MS have
been cut show from so to 81 concentrlc
rings, so that their age is less than 100
years, and they are still full of health
ard vigor, and promise to endure for
years to come. Around them have
sprung up hundreds of other stately
trees, often or feet in girth, feet
from the ground; and the forest ccme-
terry has an unusual charm from the
solcmnizing effect of these noble pines,
through which the wind ever murmurs
n gentle requiem for the departed.
Impressive as is the spectacle of the
lofty unbranched trunks, which now
and then indicate the site of n 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 its undulating surface,
with sentiment akin to awe. The
checking of the upward growth in their
youth has caused some of the trees to
send up as many as fourteen branches
each one of the size and proportions
of leader, and some of them or 6
feet in girth. One of the trees shows
a sort of Siamese-twin connecting link
between two mighty trunks which rise
almost perpendicularly to a consider
able height.
The keeper estimates that there are
1000 good-sized pines in the inclosure,
several hundred of which are between
8 and 10 feet in circumference. OF the
curious branching trees of great size
there are 100, the largest of which is II
feet inches in girth, with IA limbs 40
to GO feet long, some of them feet in
circumference. Its height is 10 feet.
Another, which is rs feet high, has q
girth of 10 feet. Adjacent pines, less
remarkable in growth, measure from
feet inches to 0 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 st. CroiX river, with
chains of wooded hills marking its
course. From the river the ground on
the British side rises in series Of
ridges, on one of which the cemetery
Is situated, at some distance from the
busy little town of st. Stephen, which
connects by briSgc with Calais, Me.
The whole river is remarkable for its
fnc landscape effects, enhanced by the
rich coloring of its red granite shores
and beaches. Its great tides, coming
from the Bay of Fundy, rise at st.
Stephen to the height of 25 feet, and
recede, leaving but thread of IN stream
to indicate its course, though it is a
quarter of a mile in width at its head
waters, broadening at its mouth into
Passamaquoddy bay, with COO islands
breaking its imposing surface.-Gardcn
and Forest.