322 AMEEICAIS" FOEEST-TEEES. 



the following as the dimensions of " sncli trees as are esteemed 

 large ones of their kind in that part of America " [Yermont], 

 qualifying his accoimt with the remark that his measurementa 

 " 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. 



247 feet. 



From 100 to 200 feet. 



He adds a note saying that a white pine was cut in Dunstable, 

 New Hampshire, in the year 1Y36, the diameter of which waa 

 seven feet and eight inches. Dr. Dwight says that a fallen pine 

 in Connecticut was found to measure two hundred and forty- 

 seven feet in height, and adds : " A few years since, such trees 

 were in great numbers along the northern parts of Connecticut 

 River." In another letter, he speaks of the white pine as " fre- 

 quently six feet in diameter, and two hundred and fifty feet in 

 height," and states that a pine had been cut in Lancaster, ISTew 

 Hampshire, which measured two hundred and sixty-four feet. 

 Emerson wrote in 1846 : " Fifty years ago, several trees growing 



tree, 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 two or at most 

 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 trans ■ 



