Logan Republican | 1903-01-23 | Page 4 | Immense Trees in Florida

IMMENSE TREES IN FLORIDA. Monarchs of the Forest That Have Stood for Centuries. It Is dlfllcult oven to guess at tho ago of tho ancient llvo onks, but somo of them must number centuries nnd tho oldest nnd greatest of them all is a monarch of tho forest, with Its outer branches sweeping tho ground In a circle 120 feet across, with limbs as great ns ordinary trunks of trees and bearing c garden of aerial ferns and air-plants upon their bark. This venerable troo is supposed to bo tho largest llvo oak in Florida. Enormous grape-vino trunks rise sinuously from tho ground and loso themselves amid tho quartor-acro of foliage that crowns this tree; tho saplings that onco gave them support havo disappeared disap-peared long years ago, their only record being the angles and curves of grape-vine stem to which they lent their transient aid In climbing skyward. sky-ward. Country Llfo In America.