FAMOUS TREES 



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tree was described by Woodbridge Metcalf, extension forester for 

 California, in a report to the Forest Service, March 20, 1936. 



A sassafras tree on the old Casey Farm, Laclede County, has 

 a circumference of 15 feet 3 inches 6 feet above ground and is over 

 100 years old. This tree was reported by S. A. Casey of Lebanon, 

 Mo., in a letter to the Forest Service dated October 22, 1931. 



MONTANA 



According to the report of Forest Ranger H. J. Thol, as of April 

 15, 1929, an Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) on the Flathead 

 National Forest, has a circumference of nearly 19 feet. Its top is 

 broken off at about 80 feet. 



Another Engelmann spruce on the Flathead has a circumference 

 of nearly 19 feet and an estimated height of 200 feet. This tree 

 also was reported by Forest Ranger H. J. Thol, as of April 15, 1929. 



NEBRASKA 



A cottonwood at Milford, with a circumference of 36 feet 5 feet 

 from the ground, a height of 128 feet, and a spread of 78 feet, was 

 reported by the American Genetic Association in 1915 (£, 5J±). 



NEW JERSEY 



The white oak in the Friends' Cemetery, at Salem (fig. 41), (7; 9\ 

 23; 35; 57; 69a; 71, p. 14} has a circumference of 19i/ 2 feet and 

 a branch spread of 117 feet. It is nearly 90 feet tall. One estimate 

 places its probable age at 300 years, another at 350 to 400 years. (See 

 Trees associated with religion, pp. 52-53.) 









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Figure 41.— Salem's Famous White Oak Tree and Tablet Erected in Its 



Honor. 



