398 Large Trees in Western New York. 
ground to the branches, it having an average circumference of 27 
feet. Its smallest circumference is 24 feet. An elm tree three 
feet in circumference is partly joined with it; their bedies often 
tonching aud their limbs intertwining, the green leaves of the 
elim make the old oak look healthier and fresher than it really is. 
They are situated in a pasture and the ground is bare and hard 
beneath them from the tramping of cattle and visitors. The 
* Big, Tree” seems fated soon to die. I knocked a few botanical 
specimens from its green branches and left regretting that all its 
limbs were not alive. . | | 
‘he swamp white oaks are numerous and often attain great 
size on the Genesee Flats. As examples, one is 14 feet in cit- 
cnmference’; another, 13 feet 9 inches; a third, 12 feet 8 inches. 
The w of this species is said to be superior to that of the 
common white oak. Many of these majestic trees contain more 
solid feet than the “ Big ‘T'ree” on account of their greater height. 
The country is greatly indebted to the good taste of the Wads- 
worths who have left groups of noble trees standing in their 
_ meadows and fields.» _ 
1 have recently (Feb., 1852) visited the lumber region in Alle- 
ghany county, New York, where a large portion of the hills and 
aud height. I measured one which was 154 feet in circumfer- 
ence at the height of 4 feet. One stump was 5 feet in diameter, 
another 44 feet. A saw log 4 feet in diameter by its annular 
rings showed an age of about 210 years. The largest log which 
I conld learn of ever having been at any one of the mills was 
one sawed several years since, 7 feet in diameter. A plank from 
this log containing 600 feet board measure was exhibited at the 
county fairat Angelica. I saw a hemlock (Pinus canadensis) 
which was 124 feet in circumference. as: ; 
Iu the history of New Hampshire by Belknap, a white pine 1s 
mentioned which was 7 feet in diameter. Michaux iu his Sylva 
states that he saw a stump it: Maine more than 6 feet in diameter. 
He also measured two trunks that were felled, one was 154 feet 
long and 54 inches in diameter, the other 142 feet long and 44 
inches in diameter. I quote the above to show that no part of 
the United States can y boast of larger white pines than 
Alleghany county. - ‘ 
An elm ( Uhnus americana) was eut down during the present 
winter on the farm of S. K. Jones, near Dresden, Yates county, 
New York, whose stump is 4 feet 10 inches in diameter at tne 
height of 4 feet from the gronid, At the height of 15 feet the 
trunk was 154 feet in circumference... At the height of 20 feet 
here the truuk divided into two large bratiches the circumfer- 
ence is still greater. Its height was about 60 feet. Its auuu- 
