THE TWO OLDEST TREES 



When a human being can survey that 

 part of Nature's operations which he feels 

 competent to study, he can then assert 

 himself in a confident manner, but should 

 do so with much caution. 



When these fossilized agatized trees 

 were living they were doing as the living 

 trees of today all do, namely, recording 

 yearly their age, making a record of the 

 rainfall, recording the storms of the year 

 and thus telling, climatically speaking, 

 what were the conditions on the earth at 

 that time. 



When I wish to find the age of a tree 

 I first get the circumference, then the 

 diameter, which I divide in half, then 

 reduce that half of the diameter to inches, 

 then secure, by accurately counting, the 

 average number of yearly rings or 

 growths of the tree to the inch ; multiply 

 this result by the number of inches in the 

 half diameter and I have the age of the 

 tree. 



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