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Show Old Trees. ffl An old ycrw trco stande in tho church- H Jlard at ForUr.gal, in Perthphlre, which H Do Condolle, nearly a century aco, proved H to tho Hatlafartlon of botanists to bo M twenty-nvo cenuirios old, and nnother Is H Btlll standing at Hodsor, in Buclas. which H Is Z2t0 yenrs old. How Do Candollo ar- M rived at an apparently correct cstimato ot wM tho enormous anre of theao Ilvlncr trees is H a slmplo thing, and tho prlnclplo Is doubt- H icea well known today to all Tho vow, ' llko most other troea, addn ono lino about M tho tenth of an Inch to its clrcumferenco H each year. But tho oldest HYing- thins In M tho world today, bo far ns lenown, is a am cypress trco in Chapultepcc, Moxico, that U ls C200 years old. Now York Tribune. Hj |