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American Trees. 



Vol. VII. 



pine tree 12 feet in diameter, and at 12 feet 

 from the ground it divided into branches. 

 On the south branch of the Potomac k, was 

 a sycamore, 9 feet in diameter. On the di- 

 viding ridge, which separates the waters of 

 the Pymatung, or Shenango, from those 

 which fall into lake Erie, grew a white 

 oak, which at 4 feet from the ground, was 

 24 feet round, and 40 feet to the first 

 branches ; and a Spanish oak about an equal 

 size. A chesnut was upwards of 24 feet in 

 diameter, at 3 feet from the ground. A pop- 

 lar, 28 feet four inches in circumference, and 

 a white pine about the same size. 



A wild cherry, on the western waters, or 

 those of Susquehanna, was supposed, by com- 

 petent judges, large enough to make ten 

 thousand feet of inch boards, exclusive of 

 several large limbs, which would cut good 

 saw logs. 



A white pine grew on the Hudson, 24 feet 

 six inches to the limbs, and 5 feet in diame- 

 ter; and another near Le Bceuf, Waterfbrd, 

 Pennsylvania, 30 feet in circumference. 



In Wayne county, Pennsylvania, are white 

 oaks, white ash, and cherry trees, 5 feet in 

 diameter, and from 50 to 80 feet in length ; 

 and white pine nearly 7 feet in diameter, all 

 remarkably clear of knots. 



A black walnut, near the Muskingum, 

 Ohio, at 5 feet from the ground, measured 

 22 feet in circumference ; and a sycamore 

 near the same place, measured 44 feet round. 



In Crawford county, Pennsylvania, was a 

 Hemlock 26 feet round; and a poplar 25 

 feet, healthy, and likely to grow many years. 

 Also a chesnut in Erie county, 30 feet round. 



A poplar in Adams county, Pennsylvania, 

 36 feet round, and 30 or 40 feet to the forks, 

 appears perfectly sound. 



In Brush valley, Northumberland county, 

 a walnut tree 22 feet round, 25 feet to the 

 forks, perfectly sound to appearance. 



On Norris's island, in the river Juniata, 

 Pennsylvania, is a sycamore 27 feet nine 

 inches round ; at 5 feet from the ground it 

 divides into four forks, one of which mea- 

 sures 15 feet nine inches in circumference, 

 another 10 feet six inches, and one 8 feet in 

 circumference. 



In Springfield, Delaware county, Penn- 

 sylvania, is a sycamore, which in 1803, was 

 19 feet six inches round, very thriving. 



On an island in the Ohio, thirteen miles 

 above Marietta, grew a tree, the stump of 

 which, 12 or 15 feet high, was standing in 

 1798, it was hollow, the circumference was 

 about 60 feet, the shell two or three inches 

 thick, diameter inside, upwards of 18 feet. 



An apple tree now growing (1807,) in 

 Upper Darby, Delaware county, Pennsylva- 



nia, measures 10 feet four inches in circum- 

 ference, sound and thrifty. 



In Luzerne county, a white pine was 

 felled, only fourteen inches in diameter, but 

 measuring one hundred and twenty feet to 

 the first branch ! 



A chesnut sapling in Chester county, Pa., 

 made nine rail cuts, of 11 feet each; the but- 

 cut made ten rails, the last cut made one. 



In relieving the garrison of Oswego, one 

 birch canoe came in, which measured 45 feet 

 in lencth, and 7 feet in breadth. 



A poplar grew near the Virginia head of 

 Roanoke river, 39 feet round 4 feet from 

 the ground, about 40 feet to the forks. 



In Lower Chichester, Delaware county, 

 Pennsylvania, a black oak tree was felled in 

 1790, which was 8 feet in diameter. 



In 1807, a hickory tree on the banks of 

 the Ohio, measured 16 feet eight inches in 

 circumference, very lofty, and kept its thick- 

 ness well. And an ash on the Mississippi, 

 17 feet in circumference, and very tall. 



In Vermont, a white pine grew, 6 feet in 

 diameter, and 247 feet in height. 



A white pine was cut at Dunstable, New 

 Hampshire, in 1736, which measured 7 feet 

 eight inches in diameter. 



In 1803, a person saw a white walnut tree 

 near lake Erie, only seven and a half inches 

 in diameter, and 63A feet to the first branch! 



In Alleghany county, Pennsylvania, a 

 white oak tree measured 15 feet six inches 

 round ; a sycamore, 33 feet round and per- 

 fectly sound; a sugar maple, 15 feet round ; 

 a walnut tree, near Big Beaver, west of 

 Ohio, 18 feet six inches round; a thorn tree, 

 in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, 5 feet 

 round ; a white oak, near the falls of Big 

 Beaver, Beaver county, 18 feet six inches 

 round, 60 feet without a limb; and at that 

 height, 4 feet in diameter. A Spanish oak 

 on the east side of the Ohio, 29 feet, six 

 inches round ; and at John Hunter's, New- 

 ton township, Delaware county, Pennsylva- 

 nia, is a chesnut tree 27 feet in circumfer- 

 ence. A walnut tree, in Genesee, New 

 York, 21 feet in circumference. A sugar 

 maple, on the banks of Mahoning, Mercer 

 county, Pennsylvania, 16 feet eight inches 

 round ; and a poplar tree, between the She- 

 nango and Neshannoch, 21 feet in circum- 

 ference. 



To choose a stock of bees. — Place your 

 ear close to the hive and give it a tap; if 

 the inmates give a short and sudden buzz, 

 all is right: but if it be a languid hum, or 

 rather a purring sound, the hive must be re- 

 jected, for the bees are weak. — Wrighton 

 on the Management of Bees. 



