Show A CIgr Cypress Tree We si irted at 880 oclock determining determin-ing to tako on our way the big cypress pf Tula 1r which is so large that it is worthy to be ranked above the big trees of California We found it in the in closure of the parish church There ia no doubt that the latter was built in that place because of the tree for which the Indians feel great veneration It is precisely of the same kind as the trees of Chapultepec but the largest there is only 40 feet in circumference while this one is by recent measurement 152 feet 4 inches There is another difference and a very marked one and this is the tendency to a flattening of the lower and larger branches and of the peculiar buttresses which the trunk throws out In the latter they are almost as flat as boards and in the branches the flatness Is that of a wedge The contrast between be-tween these and the upper ones which are rounded is very striking The trunk is not like an ordinary one but resembles a buttressed wall so that tho two diameters vary enormously The height must be less than 200 feet making mak-ing the appearance in a photogaph almost al-most dwarfish The spread of the branches from north to south is gigantic gigan-tic and the effect of light and shade ia entrancing to the artist There are colonies col-onies of lizards and of various birds in the different departments of the trunk and branches and upon the green dome of the top were a group of buzzards that croaked without intermission during om whole staySan Francisco Chronicle |