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100,000 mounted sheets can be provided. These cartons may 

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 in any large city. 



A modification of these units as to size (about 28 cm. high, 

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University of California 

 Berkeley, Calif. 



REMARKABLE BEHAVIOR OF A VETERAN WHITE OAK 



Eli7A Frances Andrews 



It is not the great age and size of this tree that claims our 

 attention here, but its surprising defiance of natural conditions 

 during the unprecedented drouth of the past summer which 

 has been so fatal to vegetation throughout the Southeastern 

 States, and has, in many cases baflBed the efforts of man himself 

 to save his crops and herds and keep the machinery of his great 

 industries running. When it first attracted my attention some 

 four or five years ago, "Time's effacing fingers" had already 

 left their marks upon it, as indicated by the following record, 

 made at the time in my note book; "It is now in a very decadent 

 condition, and among the undergrowth around it there are no 

 signs of progeny to take its place." It continued to decline 

 slowly, the foliage gradually becoming paler and thinner until 

 the great drouth came — and then, behold! a miracle. 



About the middle of September, 1925, when the drouth had 

 reached its climax, I made a visit to this Methusaleh of the 

 forest, expecting to find it dead, or dying, but imagine my 

 surprise at seeing it covered with luxuriant foliage of the rich 

 deep green color indicative of health and vigor, and a fine crop 

 of seedlings on the ground around it. In fact, this tree appeared 

 to be thriving under conditions that were destroying vegetation 

 all around it. The two girls in the foreground of the photograph 

 are four feet and a half, and five feet tall respectively, and the 

 contrast between their size and that of the tree may give the 

 reader a fair idea of the cyclopean dimensions of the latter. 



