Show LONGEVITY OF TREES THEES the th fort monarch mona live for thousands of years rear 1 prof abbott estimates the age of the woodbridge oak at about two thousand years during the revolutionary war lafayette and his bis army rested under its ite limbs its remains are now in the form of seats beats for tho the quinnipiac club I 1 donot do not know that anybody in all ail the world cares who the quinnipiac club may be but we reverenced reveren ced the woodbridge oak says a writer lit in tho the st louis globe democrat an oak in marion county fla is reported as I 1 measuring over ten feet diameter and spreading its b ranches branches over overa a diameter of feet A california sequoia felled in cala veras county had adiar a diameter nefer of 15 feet at the height of feet alcove above the earth the tha german fo forestry restry report makes akes the maximum age of european forest trees to tobe be not above years except in rare cases the pine is stated to reach re C h to go years the silver fir attains a an 11 age frequently of over years the birch b stops at and the red birch at about 2150 years oaks begin to decay at the heart when about SOO goo years old tho the holly oak excepted which goes on to above 4 oo 00 scotch firs are known to live from I 1 40 io SOO years the sequoias however ho are are estimated to have coye covered beyer years T eara |