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A foot above the ground its circumference is 28 feet. (Compare 

 Old Pisa, near Daytona, Fla., and Locke Breaux, Arnaud Robert, and 

 George Washington live oak in Louisiana.) With the sun directly 

 overhead, the shadow of Lovers' Oak measures 90 feet in diameter. 



Big Oak, a live oak (Quercus virginiana), at Thomasville has a 

 circumference of 19 feet, a height of 47 feet, a branch spread of 133 

 feet, and is about 200 years old. (See Trees that have had special 

 protection, p. 56.) 



Oglethorpe Oak (Quercus virginiana), in Savannah, Ga., with a 

 circumference of 21 feet 6 inches at about 5 feet from the ground 

 and a spread of 114 feet, was reported by the American Genetic 

 Association in September 1915 (5Jf). 



A loblolly or old-field pine (Firms taeda) about 4 miles north of 

 Gordon, Wilkinson County, in the swamp of Great Commissioner 

 Creek, on an island subject to overflow, has a circumference of 19 

 feet at 3 feet from the ground and is 125 feet tall (40). It has been 

 estimated that this tree would cut about 16,000 feet of lumber, but 

 it is hoped that it will be preserved as an example of what nature will 

 do if unhindered. 



IDAHO 



A western red cedar on the Washington Creek drainage not far 

 from Headquarters, Clearwater County, Idaho, which was still stand- 

 ing July 31, 1931, has been, acclaimed as the "largest western red 

 cedar so far recorded in Idaho." It has a circumference at breast 

 high of 39.4 feet. This tree was reported by Elers Koch, assistant 

 regional forester, and J. A. Fitzwater, forest inspector of the Forest 

 Service. 



A lowland white fir (Abies grandis) near the top of Moscow Moun- 

 tain is reported by Floyd L. Otter, instructor, School of Forestry, 

 Lmiversity of Idaho, as having a circumference of more than 14 feet 

 at breast height. 



An estimate of the ages of the large cedars (junipers) of the Roose- 

 velt Grove in the Kaniksu National Forest, near Priest River, gives 

 the ages as between 2,000 and 3,000 years, as reported by Floyd L. 

 Otter (1929), instructor of forestry, School of Forestry, Moscow. 



C. K. McHarg, Jr., of the northern forest region, reports a western 

 white pine on the Little North Fork of the Clearwater River, in 

 Idaho, which has an estimated diameter, breast high, of 7 feet, mean- 

 ing a circumference of about 22 feet. 



A western white pine growing on land of the Potlatch Lumber Co., 

 20 miles from Moscow, was 207 feet tall and 425 years old, when 

 reported in 1912 (2). 



A mountain willow (Salix scouleriana) near the top of Moscow 

 Mountain is reported by Floyd L. Otter, instructor, School of Fores- 

 try, University of Idaho, as being more than 5 feet in circumference 

 at breast height. 



ILLINOIS 



The State forester of Illinois reports a cypress in Massac County 

 having a height of 137 feet with the reputation of being "the tallest 

 tree in the State," 



A bur oak in Brown field Woods, Urbana, almost 16 feet in circum- 

 ference and 104 feet tall, is reported by State Forester R. N. Miller. 



