CHAPTER VI. 
FAMOUS TREES OF THE WORLD. 
The Forest World and Human Life Compared.—Remarkable-sized 
Trees, Where Found.—The Largest and Oldest Specimens in the 
World.—Adanson’s Experience of the Age of Trees.—‘‘ The Afri- 
can Baobab,” ‘‘ Californian Pine,” ‘‘ American Cypress,” ‘‘ The 
Tree Shelter of Cortez,” ‘‘ The Chestnut-tree of Mount Etna,” ‘‘ The 
Babylonian Tree,” ‘‘ The Wiirtemberg Linden-tree,” ‘‘ The Ancient 
Oaks of England,” ‘‘ The Old Walnut-tree of the Balkans,” ‘‘ The 
Banyan-tree of Ceylon,” ‘“‘ The Ancient Cedar Forest of Lebanon,” 
“The Feathery Cocoanut and Fan-like Palmyra of India,” ‘‘ The 
Date-tree,” ‘‘American Trees of Historic Fame,” ‘‘The Walnut- 
tree,” ‘‘ The Soap Plant of California,” ‘‘ The Mulberry-tree,” ‘‘ The 
Jonesia Asika” and ‘‘ The Tamala of India,” ‘‘The Shakespearian 
Mulberry,” “The Wadsworth Oak of New York,” ‘“‘ The Live-oaks 
of Florida,” and the Grand Oaks of Europe variously and separate- 
ly Described. —The Oriental Mulberry Proverb.—A Quotation from 
Genesis. : 
TreEeE-LiFe all over the world, in every age and every 
clime, under Southern sunny skies or the bleak, bare 
heavens of the North, has its wonderful giant-like mon- 
archs, its hoary old sages, rugged with age, its poetical 
love-dreaming and love-suggesting specimens, and its 
useful plain, honest members. In fact, like the human 
life, the forest denizens have their world within them- 
selves, their kings and sages and plebeian races. 
The subject is a vast one; thousands of trees bear 
names or attributes worthy of description. The most 
remarkable trees, as to size, are the baobab of Africa, 
the conifer of Upper California, the banyan of India, 
the lindens of Germany, and the oaks and yews of Eng- 
land. 
