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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



"HALL OF FAME" FOR TREES 



Above The Sir Joseph Hooker Oak, at Chico, California, which has been entered in the Hall of Fame of the American For- 

 estry Association at Washington by C. C. Royce. Is there a famous tree in your town? This oak, according to Gen. W. T. Sherman, 

 would shade 7,000 men at noon. Six feet above ground the tree's circumference is 28 feet 4 inches. The height is 110 feet. The 

 longest limb is 102 feet. The tree is in a park deeded to Chico by the widow of Gen. John Bidwell. 



Below Standing in the Friends Cemetery at Salem, New Jersey, this oak is nominated for the Hall of Fame for Trees being 

 compiled by the American Forestry Association by Cora June Sheppard, of Shiloh, New Jersey. Under this tree in Revolutionary days 

 seldiers of Washington's Continental Army were drilled. The tree has a spread of 111 feet. Surveyors say its branches cover 

 almost, a quarter of an acre. The highest branch is 88 feet from the ground and its circumference two feet above the ground is 

 twenty feet. The tree is known to be 300 years old. 





