Show AGE AND SIZE OF or TREES A short time since it was announced that there was in california one of the worlds wonders viz the arbor vita or the big tree of Cala call veraa ninety six feet in circumference and according in to estimate three thousand years old this mis eis however does not constitute either the lare iare lar largest e st or oldest of the woody twe tribe belonging to the te coniferous family in other countries trees greatly excel in age and size thus for instance the bar bab of senegal adam soula sonia digitale Dig itala is ascertained to belive be five thou thousand one hundred and fifty years old and is one hundred and thirty feet in circumference and M de caddelle Can delle has determined many years since that the celebrated tree called by the designation g of of chepultepec mexico which is one hundred anci and seventeen feet in circum circumference ference forence exceeds in age the baobab of senegal home journal the ae a age 11 e of a tree has heretofore been computed from the number of its ita rings reckoning one year to each ring but if the new theory is correct that a rin ring is completed at every full moon during the growing season in a year then very many years have to be deducted from the above named a ages aes es of trees ED s |