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of all our trees, and are certainly valuable, as they flourish luxuriantly 

 in our climate. 



CUPULIFER^. 



(OAK Family.) 



Quercus alba, L. (White Oak.) The demand for ship timber 

 has caused most of the large trees of this species to be felled, and it 

 can only be said that the trees of younger growth are abundant. 



A large healthy tree growing in a damp pasture in the rear of the 

 Pingree Estate, in Topsfleld, measured by Mr. Sears and the writer in 



1875, was, 



Circumference 19 feet 7 inches, 1 foot from the ground. 

 " 16 " 3 " 3 feet " " '' 



" 12 " 11 " 5 " " '< " 



The spread averaged about 75 feet in diameter. Two trees on the 

 Burley Farm, Danvers, measured by Mr. Sears, were, 



(1) Circumference 19 feet inches, ground measure. 



" 13 " 6 " at 6 feet above. 



Height 70 feet. Spread 80 feet. 



(2) Circumference 17 feet 10 inches at ground. 



" 12 " " at 5 feet above. 



Height 80 feet. Spread 80 feet. 



Five large White Oaks on land belonging to the late Francis Curtis, 

 of Boxford, were measured in 1875 by Mr. Sears and the writer. 

 Taking the most easterly tree as number one, passing towards the 

 west, and counting the one higher on the hillside to the north as 

 number five, they measured as follows, 



(1) Circumference 11 feet 10 inches, 1 foot from ground. 

 I " 10 •' 1 inch 6 feet " " 



* Spread 65 feet. Height 60 feet. 



(2) Circumference 12 feet 6 inches, 1 foot from ground. 



•' 11 " 2 " 6 feet " " 



(Tree partly dead.) 



(3) Circumference 14 feet 4 inches, 1 foot from ground. 



'* 11 " linch 5 feet <' " 



Spread 80 feet. Height 65 feet. 



(4) Circumference 13 feet inches, 1 foot from ground. 



11 '• 4 -' 5 feet " " 

 10 " 11 «' 7 " " " 

 Height 60 feet. Spread 60 feet. 



(5) Circumference 15 feet 3 inches, 1 foot from ground. 



" 10 " 11 " 5 feet " •' 



Height (top gone) 50 feet. Spread 85 feet. 



In Danvers, on a lot from which the wood was cut in 1828, is a 

 White Oak, which in 18G0 measured 3 feet 1 inch at the ground. The 

 same tree in 1867, was 3 feet 7 inches, and in 1875, 4 feet 2 inches and 

 30 feet high. 



