~Q MISC. PUBLICATION 295, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



Figure 36. — Twin Sassafras Trees. Soldiers' 

 D. C. Said To Be the Oldest Living Things 



Home grounds. Washington, 

 in the District of Columbia 



The Florida Forest Service in a letter of April 18. 1935. to the 

 Forest Service, says this cypress has a circumference of 54 feet, a 

 height of 125 feet, and an estimated approximate age of 3,000 years. 



A red oak at Chipley with a circumference of about 25 feet 3 feet 

 from the ground, a height of 60 feet, a spread of 65 feet, at only 20 

 years of age. was reported by the American Genetic Association in 

 September 1915. The description of the red oak at Chipley was 

 included in the full list of tree contestants in the 1915 contest of the 

 American Genetic Association sent to the Forest Service by the asso- 

 ciation. 



Old Pisa is a giant oak 2% miles south of Daytona (10. pp. 284- 

 BS7). It has a circumference of 35 feet at the base and its branches 

 extend over almost an acre of ground. It is believed to have been an 

 old tree when Daytona was the Indian village. -'Autumeas.'* 



GEORGIA 



A cork oak (Quercus suber) on the edge of a cottonfield, a half 

 mile north of Daphne station, west of Cordele (-53). is said to be 

 •'undoubtedly the largest specimen of cork oak in the country, prob- 

 ably brought from Spain by a southern planter.'* It has a circum- 

 ference of nearly 12 feet at 1 foot from the ground, is 60 feet tall, 

 has a branch spread of 60 to 70 feet, and is more than 100 years old. 



In a public park at Brunswick (9) there is a tree, a veteran in 



i 763, which was called Lovers' Oak by the Indians of the locality. It 



limed for this tree that it is the' "largest live oak in the South.'* 



