AMERICAN FOREST-TREES. oo 
states the following as the dimensions of “such trees as are 
esteemed large ones of their kind in that part of America” 
[Vermont], qualifying his account with the remark that his 
measurements “do not denote the greatest which nature has 
produced of their particular species, but the greatest which are 
to be found in most of our towns.” 
Diameter. Height, 
ING), ssi aie ors wrote oilesiete 6 feet, 247 feet. 
Maple...... olsen wae ene 5 ‘* 9 inches, 
Buttonwood....... rea AO pe eee 
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Ga 4 « From 100 to 200 feet. 
Basswood 2) 223s oes a 
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He adds a note saying that a white pine was cut in Dun- 
stable, New Hampshire, in the year 1736, the diameter of 
which was seven feet and eight inches. Dr. Dwight says that 
a fallen pine in Connecticut was found to measure two hun- 
so small that a young lady, with the help of a lad, took it up from the ground 
and carried it a quarter of a mile, was planted near a house in a town in 
Vermont. It was occasionally watered, but received no other special treat- 
ment, I measured this tree in 1860, and found it, at four feet from the 
ground, and entirely above the spread of the roots, two feet and four inches 
in diameter. A new measurement in 1871 gave a diameter of two feet eight 
inches, being an increase of four inches in eleven years, a slower rate than 
that of preceding years. It could not have been more than three inches 
through when transplanted, and up to 1860 must have increased its diameter 
at the rate of about seven-tenths of an inch per year, almost double its later 
growth. In 1871 the crown had a diameter of 62 feet. 
In the same neighborhood, elms transplanted in 1803, when they were not 
above three or four inches through, had attained, in 1871, a diameter of from 
four feet to four feet two inches, with a spread of crown of from 90 to 112 
feet. Sugar-maples, transplanted in 1822, at about the same size, measured 
two feet three inches through. This growth undoubtedly considerably ex- 
ceeds that of trees of the same species in the natural forest, though the 
transplanted trees had received no other fertilizing application than an un- 
limited supply of light and air. 
