in the United States and in Canada. 153 



and 200 ft. high by estimation, p. 26. A button-wood (Pla- 

 tanus occidentals), in Jefferson, Cayuga County, New York 

 on the Montezuma estate, is 47^ ft. in circumference; the 

 diameter of the hollow upwards of 15 ft., 2 ft. above the 

 ground. {Med. Bep. New York, vol. iv. p. 427.)* A live 

 oak at Dr. Rhode's, Beaufort, South Carolina, has a stern 

 32ft. 5 in. in circumference; distance to a branch, 14ft.: it 

 is nearly of the same thickness the whole length of the tree. 



An elm at Johnstown, near Providence, Rhode Island, at 

 2 ft. from the ground, is 24 ft. in circumference ; at 4 ft., 

 21 ft. : it has eight main branches. In Aurelius, New York, 

 there is another elm 33 ft. in circumference. At Raleigh, 

 North Carolina, there is an oak which, sixty years ago, was 

 so small, that the owner bent it down, and cut off the top : 

 in 1817, at the ground, it measured 25 ft. in girth, but as 

 high as trees are usually cut, 15 ft. At noon, the tree covers 

 with its shade a circumference of 333 ft. 



A weeping elm ( U. americana), before the door of Thad- 

 deus Burr, Fairfield, Connecticut, a few years since, was 

 24 ft. round, at 1 ft. from the ground. A man, alive in 1807 

 (then 97 years old), planted it. 



On the plantation of Mr. Adams, on the river Schuylkill, 

 is a button-wood tree, 27 ft. in circumference. 



Michaux mentions that " 36 miles from Marcetta, in Ohio, 

 on the right-hand bank of the river, he measured a button- 

 wood, at 4 ft. from the surface, and found it 47 ft. in circum- 

 ference. It appeared to preserve the same dimensions to the 

 height of 15 or 20 ft.; and it then divided into many limbs 

 of proportional size." His host offered to show him others, 

 equally large, two or three miles off. He quotes his father's 

 journal, for another button- wood, which he saw in an island 

 in the Ohio, fifteen miles above the mouth of the Mushingum, 

 which, at 5 ft. from the ground, when the bark was smooth, 

 measured 40 ft. 4 in. in girth. {Journal, p. 92. Paris, 18.) 

 In his Memoir on the Naturalisation in France of the American 

 Fruit Trees, Paris, 1 805, he gives a large table of the heights 

 of various trees in North America. 



In the first volume of the Memoirs of the Philadelphia 

 Society for promoting Agriculture is a paper, by the late John 

 Pearson, Esq., Senator of the Pennsylvania Legislature, on 

 the dimensions of numerous American trees, principally taken 

 by himself. This work is in the library of the British Board 

 of Agriculture, and of the London Horticultural Society. 

 • Philadelphia, Sept. 20. 1829. J. M. 



* Certified by eleven citizens. 



