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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



THE BANYAN TREE AT SINGAPORE 



This shows the main trunk of the tree only. On an island in the Nurrbudda River is a larger tree with 350 large trunks and 3000 small oneB 



under which an army of 7000 soldiers has encamped. 



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It it claimed that thii tree holds the world's record for size. It has a central trunk fifty feet in circumference and about two hundred progres- 

 sive trunks. The Hindus have a great reverence for the banyan tree, and because of its overshadowing 

 beneficence, it it regarded as a symbol of the Deity. 



