Show TREES LIVE FOR CENTURIES six thousand years Is the age of one on on the canary islands and there are numerous others knowing that some broes have reached the ago age ot of several years it is surprising that pr ft mi amny any of 0 our shade trees should did dia so BO young the age ot of a dragon tree on ono one of 0 the canary islands is taid to be more than years that of a bald cypress in mexico Is believed to be more than years and that of an eng glish oak in europe and a big tree Se sequoia quola gig gigantes antea in california is As known to be more than 2000 years many trees also have fitt aird to enormous size both in ediht arid and diameter the eucalyptus in Is known to reach it a height of feet and the bit bis tree trae the redwood and the tha douglas fir in california otten often grow to a height beight of three hundred feet the sycamore and tulip tree in the eastern elsiem states sometimes reach a height of feet the tree of largest diameter 1 Is found at the bass of mount etna in sicily it Is 1 a species of chestnut an and d its I 1 it a trunk trun kis la more than sixty feet lu in diameter some people claim this remarkable tree Is 18 the result of several individuals the oriental sycamore comes next with a diameter of about forty feet from trees in winter by Blako elee and jarvis |