78 MISC. PUBLICATION 295, U. S. DEFT. OF AGRICULTURE 



According to C. R. Tillotson, of the Forest Service, in a letter of 

 March 21, 1919, to John Gill, Haddon Farm, Haddonfield. X. J., the 

 largest white oak on record at that time was one at Atwood, the cir- 

 cumference of which was 21 feet. However, this list includes several 

 later-known rivals. 



An oak near Warsaw (20) has a circumference of very nearly 22 

 feet. 



A sycamore (PI at anus occidentalis L.) at Worthington, Greene 

 County, about 70 miles southwest of Indianapolis, was adjudged the 

 largest shade tree in the United States in the 1915 contest of the 

 American Genetic Association. It has a circumference of 42 feet 3 

 inches at about 5 feet from the ground; a height of 150 feet; and a 

 branch spread of about 100 feet (4, 5, 6, 54). 



A large sycamore at East Mount Carmel was reported by V. W. 

 Agniel, of Princeton, July 16, 1920, to the Forest Service, as found 

 while making a survey along the Wabash River; Mr. Angiel gives 

 the measurements as about M 1 /^ feet in circumference and about 150 

 feet in height. 



IOWA 



Lincoln Memorial Hackberry is 110 feet high and nearly 12 feet 

 in circumference (10, v. 26, p. 514). (See Trees associated with nota- 

 ble people, p. 9.) 



Twin cottonwoods, 80 feet in height, are reported from Solon. 



A cottonwood east of Engelwood has a circumference of 31 feet 

 and is said to be the largest tree in Kansas (103, pp. 12-14). 



KENTUCKY 



An oak in Harrison County with a circumference of 31 feet 5 feet 

 from the ground, a height of 125 feet, and a spread of 70 feet was 

 reported by the American Genetic Association in September 1915 

 (6,54). 



A sassafras on a farm near Glendale. Hardin County, was reported 

 as having a circumference of 14 feet 6 feet above ground (37). 



LOUISIANA 



A cypress tree estimated to be 1,300 years old and measuring 16,175 

 board feet in volume when cut recently in the Amite River swamp in 

 Livingston Parish, is reported by Extension Forester Robert Moore 

 of Louisiana State University. The age was calculated by counting 

 the annual rings. The tree had a merchantable length of 86 feet 

 8 inches, measured 7 feet 8 inches across the stump, and was sound 

 throughout (98). 



A sweetgum near Urania has a circumference of 18.8 feet and a 

 volume of 10,580 board feet, according to the late Henry E. Hardtner, 

 president of the Urania Lumber Co. 



Edwin Lewis Stephens, president of Southwestern Louisiana Insti- 

 tute, says (89. 90) : "I at present number among my personal ac- 

 quaintance 43 live oaks whose individual age is not less than 100 



