Show LONGEVITY OF TREES the foredt monarchs monarch uve live for Thou ianda ot of years year prof abbott estimates the age of the woodbridge pe oale at about two thousand years during the revolutionary war lafayette and his army rested under its limbs its remains are now in the form of seats for the quinnipiac club 1 I donot do not know that anybody in all the world cares who the quinnipiac club may be but we reverenced reveren ced the wood bridee bridde oak says a writer in the st louis globe democrat an oak marion county fla is reported as measuring over ten feet diameter and spreading its branches over a diameter of ISS feet A california sequoia felled in cala veras county had a diameter of 15 feet at the height of EZ feet above the earth the german forestry report makes the maximum ma daum ago age of european forest trees to be not above years except in rare cases the pine is stated to reach to years yeam the silver fir attains an age frequently of over years the birch stops at 00 oo and the red birch at about years oaks begin to decay at the heart when about years old the holly oak excepted which goes on to above scotch fa firs fas s are known to live from to goo years yeam the sequoias however are estimated to have covered years yeam |