The Two Oldest Trees 



WHEN one is dealing with a sub- 

 ject whose activities date back to 

 a period so remote that time is 

 measured by hundreds of thousands of 

 years, as we count time, one must have 

 definite proof of his statements, else he is 

 pronounced a guesser, or even worse, one 

 of unsound mind. 



The Jurassic period, the geologists tell 

 us, was about one million five hundred 

 thousand years ago, and it is of that pe- 

 riod I seek to tell, so far as it relates by 

 comparison to our present tree life and 

 the climatic conditions as compared to 

 our time and days. 



The Jura Mountains of Europe, north- 

 west of Switzerland, are composed of 

 rocks of that epoch; hence the name as 

 applied by eminent scholars to that pe- 

 riod (the Oolite or Jurassic). 



