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Show .IXOEIDA'S BIO TREES. i Country" Life in America- It is difficult even to guess at the age of the ancient live oaks, and the oldest and greatest of them al Us a monarch of the forest, with its other branches sweeping the ground In a circle 120 feet across, with limbs as great as ordinary trunks of trees, and bearing a garden of aerial ferns and air plants upon their bark. This venerable tree is supposed to be the largest live oak in Florida-Enormous Florida-Enormous grape vine trunks rise sinuously sinu-ously from the ground and lose themselves them-selves amid the quarter-acre of foliage that Crowns this tree. . The saplings that once gave them support have disappeared dis-appeared long years ago, their only record'' rec-ord'' being the angles and curves of grapevine stem to which they lent their transient aid in climbing skyward. . |