| Show tny tup OLDEST INTIA inhabitant BITANT A correspondent of 01 th tue e london times calculates the age of the great california tree in the crystal palace at sydenham at about six lix th thousand usand four hundred bundred and ad years it mu must at have ave been planted ac 6 cording to that when adam was a very small laby baby if not before they same came writer wilter refers to another california tree which must be at least seven thousand one hundred and twenty eight hight deais old the method in which the compu computation ta was made is this the writer took two t wa pieces of the wood of the tree one of the heart and another of the sapwood about an inch square each and he be counted the concen concentric fric hyers which aie supposed to indicate the annual growth in the h bart eart wood lie he found forty five hiye layers to the idich incha and hd in the sapwood sap wood awen twenty one e and as the tree is fourteen f feet beet in diameter ten of heart aed and ald four of sap the result was easily obtain obtained id the second tree spoken of was thuly tv nine nine feet in diameter |
