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Show TREE BROUGHT WOMAN $110. Walnut Trunk Fifty Feet Long Sent to Germany. Dlrdsbara, l'a. Ono of tho largest walnut trees in Dcrks county was sold recently by Miss Rebecca Kadt-noch, owned by tho Itndenoch homestead at Jefferson, this county, about two miles from Krlck's mill. Tho treo has long been known as a monarch of tho forest. for-est. It stood In n grovo near tho public pub-lic road. In diameter tho treo measured meas-ured nearly five feet near tho bottom and thrco feot In diameter CO foot from tho ground, without a slnglo limb for that distance. Tho prlco paid was" $110 and tho purchaser pur-chaser was Abraham Kby, of the Dlrd-ln-Hand, Lancaster county, who will ship tho log to Germany, where it will be cut up and used In venoerlng furniture, furni-ture, Near this tree stood another of the samo species, but a trifle smallor. Tho first limb, however, grow from tho trunk of this treo at a dlstanco of 25 feet from tho ground. Miss Itndenoch sold a largo number of walnut trees and tho grove contains many moro. A grovo containing all trees of this character would bo worth a fortune since walnut wood is bo-coming bo-coming exceedingly scarco and big prices aro being paid for tho right kind of trees. |