FLUSHING'S OLDEST TREE 



Bv Everett P. AL\rtin 



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LUSHING, Long Island, is noted 

 for its trees. The soil and 

 climate are such that a great 

 variety of trees and shrubs will 



grow there. 



One of the largest Cedar 



of Lebanon in the country, 13 feet in 

 circumference, 7 feet from the ground, 

 62 feet high, 75 feet in the spread is 

 there. It has the largest weeping beech 



in the United States. An apple tree 



Flushing's Oldest Tree 

 this is .\ fixe white oak in the yard of ellis parker butler, the author 



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