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who established a nursery at this place in 1856 and probably planted 

 this tree sometime in the sixties. It is therefore about 20 years 

 older than the McCubbin Manna Gum. When measured on April 

 10, 1935, it had a circumference of 25 feet at breast height, the largest 

 of any eucalyptus tree in California, but it is about 25 feet shorter 

 than the McCubbin tree and much shorter than the blue gum trees 

 on the Berkeley campus. This tree also was reported by Woodbridge 

 Metcalf. University of California. April 26, 1935. 



There is a very symmetrical specimen of Eucalyptus globulus at 

 the Shinn place near Niles. Alameda County. It measures about 

 16 feet 9 inches in circumference and 130 feet in height. Mrs. Julia 

 T. Shinn, wife of Charles Howard Shinn who was active in the early 

 days of the College of Agriculture, University of California, and. 

 for years, the supervisor of the Sierra National Forest at North Fork, 

 has this to say of the tree : 



It was a "runt" in a flat of eucalyptus seedlings grown in the Shinn Nursery 

 about 1870. My husband, helping his father in the nursery, was transferring 

 the seedlings to larger quarters, and his father condemned this one as not 

 worth room. So Charles, as he told me long afterwards, poked his finger into 

 the ground and put the tiny thing in, staking and watering it when it refused 

 to die. (88, 94.) 



Mrs. Shinn was thus quoted by Woodbridge Metcalf to the Forest 

 Service in a letter dated May 18, 1935, after visiting the Shinn tree. 



Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla), at Twentieth Street and 

 Compton Avenue, Los Angeles, has a girth of 21 feet 3 feet from 

 the ground and is estimated to be 60 feet tall. It has a branch spread 

 of 113 feet east to west and 116 north to south. Another tree of the 

 same species is reported as growing on Cedar Street. Glendale, with a 

 circumference of 14.3 feet, a height of 86 feet, and a spread of 78 feet. 



About one-half mile west of the west end of Carson Spur on the 

 Carson Pass State Highway across the Eldorado National Forest, 

 stands a juniper of which it has been said: "It is questionable if 

 there is any other juniper tree in America of equal or greater size.' 1 

 This giant of the species is 31 feet 8 inches in circumference breast 

 high. Although 76 feet tall, it does not show its height to advantage 

 because of the large size of the limbs and the excessive amount of 

 foliage. This tree is very close to a well-traveled highway and grows 

 on a south slope at an altitude of over 7.000 feet. 



A remarkable California Laurel (Umbellularia calif ornica) , grow- 

 ing at 624 Towelling Street, San Lorenzo, Alameda County, breaks 

 into six large trunks about 5 feet from the ground. The tree, where 

 it is smallest, 3 feet from the ground, has a circumference of 

 29.3 feet. It is approximately 70 feet tall, with a crown diameter 

 of 85 feet, and, when examined, was bearing an enormous crown of 

 flowers. This tree also was reported by Woodbridge Metcalf, on 

 March 20, 1936. _ 



In this collection of tree stories, there are several famous oaks in 

 the far West : 



A Canyon Live Oak (81) (Quercus chrysolepis) , on the Stanislaus 

 National Forest, 8 miles east of Tuolumne, has a circumference of 

 31!/^ feet, a height of 60 feet, and a branch spread of 131 feet. Its 

 estimated age is 700 years. In 1920 the people of Tuolumne County 

 subscribed $750 for the services of a tree doctor to preserve this tree 

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