FAMOUS TREES 



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Figure 32. — Canyon Live Oak, Stanislaus National Forest. Calif 



San Benito Valley Oak (Quercus lob at a) , in San Benito Comity, 

 (6, 5 4, 71) has a circumference of 37% feet, a height of 125 feet, and 

 bears a ton of acorns in a good season. 



Sir Joseph Hooker Oak, one of the finest specimens of valley white 

 oak (Quercus lohata), north of Chico. in a park deeded to Chico by 

 the widow of Gen. John Bidwell, who had entertained Sir Joseph 

 Hooker, an English botanist, in 1877 (6, 9, 48, 64, 80, 81), has been 

 variously estimated as having a circumference of 21 to over 28 feet 6 

 feet from the ground and a height of 105 to 110 feet. Its spread 

 of branches is 150 feet in diameter, the outer circumference of its 

 shade being at least 450 feet. 



Another splendid specimen of Quercus lohata, 130 feet high, is in 

 the Ojai Valley, and the Henley Oak in Round Valley is 150 feet 

 tall and over 25 feet in circumference (81 ) . 



The superintendent of the C. C. C. Bouquet Canyon Camp on the 

 Angeles National Forest tells of what he believes to be the largest 

 coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) in southern California. It is 34% 

 feet in circumference 5 feet from the ground, has seven limbs, one of 

 which is 13 feet in circumference, a crown spread of 150 feet in diame- 

 ter, is 100 feet tall, and is estimated to be 1,000 years old. A spring 

 beneath its shade and a trail leading to the spot make this tree pleas- 

 ant to visit and easy of access. 



A "white or native oak" at Gridley has a circumference of 25% 

 feet 5 feet from the ground, is 123 feet tall, and has a branch spread 

 of 139 feet east to west and 134 feet north to south, according to 



