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Show Hi ;i , i Li,i .,i.iM.,..i,niiiiiMi ...ii.ii.iiiiiirronwieaanpMMmw Hj'J-y T3ao Buco Tar oiT fl tlxe TKToarfLcaL- ' B One third o the land surface of H our globe is covered with forests ' . The largest tree in the world is H' situated near Muscoli, at the foot 1, of .Mount iEtna, and is' called "The Chestnut of a Hundred Horses." Iti is believed tp be the oldest tree in the world. 3?ive enormous branches rise from the trunk '204 feet in circumference, .. ; tthe "Intervals, between which are H-SHHHHHDHiHRBtwo carriages MMHM(HQJMP the north- ?j HjU erly bank of ihe river Johnstone, H in East Australia, latitude 2.7 de-a grees longitude 151 degrees near HSjjj Biisbane, measuring three feet K'; in circumference. BfJ In Buoyouderch, near Constan- H$lj tinople, is a Plane tree measuring Bui one hundred and forty nine feet in $;f ciroumference. H The "Giant Rose-wood" tree in $ Nevada latitude 38' degrees, longi- j; tude 129 degrees, is 119 feet in H circumference. There are thirteen H' other trees, standing near it, meas-WM meas-WM . uring from 72 to 96 feet in circum-fc circum-fc i frence. In Oaxaca there is a Cy-Hh Cy-Hh press tree measuring 117 feet in K ' j circumference. H The "Grizzley Giant" the mon- B arch of the Mariposa Grove, meas- aires 92 feet. , The Tulare Fresno Forest sit-H' sit-H' uated in California, extending in H length, with a width in some places H of 10 miles, consists mainly of big ' i trees with a multitude of smaller " ones measuring from 6 to 100 feet. m In 1852 John Dond discovered B in Calaveras county Cal, a grove of B 103 trees, covering a space of 50 H acres, measuring from 70 to 90 feet. H In California there is a tree H: called "Centennial Tree" which j ' scaled nearly 8000 ft. ofinchlum-B ofinchlum-B bar to the first limb. WM rno lumber from such a tree -would build 150 houses. HI Our illustrations show some of H ' iT6 ? trees a cone or bur from ( the big trees, and how the H woodpeckers perforate the bark H v of the trees in order to prooure the mm grubs that work under the bark HB && in. the wood. H?M. . There is another tret which may MPfSB? also said to belong to California. Br - jBL- -, - Cone from Big Trees, It is a live Oak the tree from which the beautiful city of Oakland Oak-land takes its name. The body of the oak is short but as a shade and as ornamental tree it has no equal. There is an Elm tree in the south of England which measures 61 feet. till i RKKS OF CALIFORNIA. In Norf olkshire there is a famous Lime tree measuring 4$ feet. The Washington Elm in Cambridge Cam-bridge measures 25 feet and the Big Elm on Boston Common measures 24 feet. A specie of tree ferns called Al-sophila Al-sophila gigantica is found in the Himalaya, at an elevation of 7000 feet. There is a plank taken from one of the large trees of California called "Mammoth Redwood" plank. This plank was cut in June 1890 in Humbolt county, California, Califor-nia, for exhibition at the World's Fair. The great tree from which the plank was hewn Was 35 feet in diameter, when standing, and was supposed to have reached the patriarchal patri-archal age of 1500 years. A part of one side of the tree had decayed decay-ed and after it had been felled, in burning, up the surrounding brush, still more of the tree was distroyd, by fire, so that the width of the plank represents less than half of the original diameter of the tree. The entire height of the tree was 300 feet; the plank being cut 'from a section of the trunk 28 feet from the ground, This plank is the largest in the world; its dimensions di-mensions being as follows: 16 feet 5 inches wide, 12 ft. 9 inches long, and 5 inches thick. It is highly improbable if a tree will ever be found that will yield a larger plank. So that the mammoth pieces of timber here discrifbed may certainly certain-ly be termed the "sight of a life time." Prairie Flower. i -' ii . O ii .i |
