Q4 MISC. PUBLICATION 295, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



TEXAS 



Bishop Live Oak (91; 92, p. 20), near Eockport in Aransas County, 

 is reported by Burtt Potter as worthy of comparison with the best 

 in Louisiana. It is credited with a circumference of 25 feet 6 inches 

 4 feet above the ground. It ranks eleventh in a list of notable live 

 oaks reported by President Stephens of Southwestern Louisiana 

 Institute, the 10 that are larger ranging from 35 to 27 feet, all of 

 them in Louisiana. 



Jumbo, a pecan tree in San Saba, near the Colorado River, which 

 is a claimant to the title "largest pecan in the world," is 120 feet 

 high, with a clear length of 41 feet to its first limb. This pecan 

 has a much larger bole than the Hohen Solms pecan in Louisiana, 

 but in circumference the latter excels, according to C. A. Reed, as- 

 sociate pomologist, Bureau of Plant Industry. The spread of the 

 main branches of Jumbo is 100 feet. It is said of this veteran that 

 "a thousand years ago it was a hardy sapling" (76). 



UTAH 



A notable white fir (Abies concolor), pronounced by an ecologist 

 "the most magnificient fir in the world," is on Timpanogos Mountain. 

 It has a circumference of IT feet 8 inches and is 110 feet tall (SO). 

 This is a specimen of unusual size for the interior of the continent. 

 On the California Sierras it attains much greater size, but no individ- 

 uals have been reported from there. 



What is believed to be the oldest juniper tree in the world is 

 being protected by the Forest Service, according to reports received 

 from the Cache National Forest, in northern Utah, near the main 

 Logan Canyon Highway. A careful examination of this tree made 

 by scientists from the Utah State Agricultural College and Forest 

 Supervisor Carl B. Arentson showed the age of the tree to be not 

 less than 3,000 years, thus putting this tree in the age class of the 

 redAvoods of California. The circumference breast high is 231^ feet, 

 and the height is 42 feet (12, 56, 97, fig. 43.) 



Veteran rock maple in Vermont's oldest sugar maple orchard, Pine 

 Grove Farm, on Putney Road, one-third of a mile west of the Con- 

 necticut River (1^, p. 481). The tree's base shows the knotted, un- 

 even growth covering scars made by the old boxing method by which 

 the tree was made to yield its annual crop of sap before tapping bits 

 came into general use (fig. 44). 



An arbovitae (northern white cedar) at Natural Bridge, 15 feet 

 in circumference, 90 feet tall, and with a branch spread of 33 feet, 

 is probably the oldest tree in the East, with the exception of the 

 Florida cypresses (58, p. 11). 



A water oak at Toddsbury (58, p. 20), one of the oldest estates in 

 Gloucester County, has a circumference of 26 feet and a branch 

 spread of 120 feet. Apparently it was a tree of goodly size Avhen 

 Toddsbury was established in 1658. 



