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Show TREES THAT LIVE CENTURIES. One at Least Is Known to be Over 700 Years Old. Brazilian cocoanut palms-Hvo from 600 to TOO years, and the Arabs assert that tho date palm frequently roaches the age of 200 to 300 years. Wallan's oak, near Paisley, Scotland, is known to bo over 700 years old, and there are eight ollvo trees on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem which are known to havo been flourishing In 1099. Tho yews at Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, were old trees when In 1132 the abbey was built, and a redwood red-wood in Mariposa Drove, Cal., is a manifold centenarian. Roabab trees ot Africa have been computed to be over 5,000 years old, and the deciduous cypress at Chapultepec is considered to be ot a still greater age. Humboldt said that the dracaena draco at OrotA-va, OrotA-va, on Tcnoriffe, was one of tho oldest inhabitants of the earth. |