Some Trees of Indiana. 263 
“Along the Western rivers trees are found whose trunks measure from 
40 to 50 feet in circumference.” Britton* gives it a diameter of 14 feet, 
and Gray’ gives it a diameter of 2 to 4.2 m. and calls it “our largest 
tree.” A partial view of this tree is given in the Fifteenth Annual 
Report of the Indiana State Board of Forestry for 1915, page 109. 
In my yard is a hickory, Cary ovata, which was formerly very tall. 
It is about three feet in diameter and at present only about 100 feet 
high. Formerly it was 170 feet high, but 70 feet of the top has been 
cut off. 
There are still a number of areas of native forests containing good- 
sized trees in Indiana. Among these may be mentioned Turkey Run.’ 
The farm of Mr. W. L. Jennings near Lexington, Scott County, Indiana.’ 
This farm is reported to have 100 acres of fine forest... The farm now 
belonging to Indiana University near Mitchell, Indiana, has about 80 
acres of fine, large oak and poplar and some other kinds of trees. But 
these and other areas still exist only because the pony sawmill, the pro- 
verbial forest fire and other timber-devouring agencies have been thus 
far kept out. 
2 Britton, Ic, Vol. 25 p: 242. 
4 Gray, New Manual of Botany, 7th Edition, p. 454. 
1 Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Board of Forestry, 1915. 
