BERMUDA'S LITTLE TREES 



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The Oldest Cedar Tree in Bermuda. 



OUT OF cedar trees OF THIS SIZE SIR GEORGE SUMMERS AND HIS CREW, WRECKED ON THE ISLANDS, BUILT IN NINE 

 MONTHS A PINNACLE OF FORTY TONS BURDEN, TWENTY-NINE FEET LONG AND FIFTEEN FEET BEAM. 



teringly covered with a small, scraggly 

 red juniper cedar which was the 

 original plant indigenous to the pulvery 

 soil of decaying coral rock. Little trees 

 as we know them, scarcely ever exceed- 

 ing thirty feet in height and perhaps 

 also dwarfed by the constant winds, 

 but pictureque with a Japanese dainti- 

 ness and forming a dark olive green 



background for the brighter vegetation 

 disclosed upon a nearer approach. 



History relates that of these tiny 

 edars, Sir George Sommers and his 

 crew, after being wrecked, built in nine 

 months a pinnacle called "Patience" 

 of forty tons burden, twenty-nine feet 

 in length and fifteen feet in beam, in 

 which he made two successful voyages 



