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



by Ernest L. Kolbe, junior forester. Pacific Northwest Forest Experi- 

 ment Station. 



The same list contains a mountain hemlock (Tsvga mertensiana) of 

 unusual size in Crater Lake Park. Its circumference is given as 

 16.6 feet and its height as 156 feet. 



Summer Lake has a western juniper (Juniperus Occident alis) 

 nearly 12 feet in circumference and 35 feet high, according to Ernest 

 L. Kolbe, junior forester, Pacific Northwest Forest Experiment 

 Station. 



The Pioneer Walnut, at Salem, is a California black walnut that 

 was planted at Salem in the pioneer days of the Oregon country. 

 According to the measurements of C. A. Reed of the Department of 

 Agriculture, this tree has a circumference of 10 feet 11 inches about 

 6 feet from the ground. Several tons of nuts are harvested from 

 it every year (10, v. 28, p. 553) . 



PENNSYLVANIA 



An American chestnut tree on a farm near Spinnerstown, Bucks 

 County, was reported (32) as having a circumference of 33 feet 

 2 feet from the ground and a height of nearly 90 feet and being 220 

 years old. It was said then to be the largest chestnut tree in Penn- 

 sylvania. (Since most chestnut trees in this section have succumbed 

 to the chestnut blight in recent years, this one may be dead now.) 



The Washington Horsechestnut, one of the largest horsechestnut 

 trees in North America, may be found on the property of the Bath 

 & Portland Cement Co., near Bath, Northampton County. It meas- 

 ures 17 feet in circumference 6 feet from the ground (4-5, ed. 2). (See 

 Trees associated with notable people, p. 4.) 



A bur oak at Huntington (45, ed. 1), is 29 feet in circumference 

 1 foot from the ground. 



A swamp white oak at Bedford (45, ed. 1), has a circumference of 

 27% feet. It Avas entered in a State bigtree contest in 1925. 



A white oak at Kutztown, Berks County (10, v. 28, pp. 551-553), 

 has a circumference of 31 feet at the ground. It is believed to be the 

 largest white oak in Pennsylvania. 



Sacred Oak of the Delaware Indians of Oley Valley, Berks 

 County, a few miles northeast of Reading, is a chestnut oak 22 feet 

 in circumference, with a branch spread of 116 feet. (See Trees that 

 have had special protection, p. 58 and fig. 28.) 



A white pine cut near the mouth of Cedar Run, Lycoming County, 

 had a circumference of more than 37 feet, was 200 feet tall, and had 

 a volume of 6,500 board feet below the branches. 



A white pine south of Aaronsburg, Center County, has a circum- 

 ference of only 10% feet and is 140 feet high. It is, however, of 

 venerable age — 235 years (44). 



A sassafras in a quaint old graveyard directly opposite the Friends' 

 meeting house, Horsham, has a circumference of 16 feet at 5 feet 

 from the ground. The top is broken off, leaving only 19 feet of the 

 trunk standing. Before its decline, the tree was estimated to be 

 over 100 feet tall. It is of venerable age also. (See Trees associated 

 with religion, p. 55.) 



G Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters, mammoth white pine. Pa. 

 Dept. Forests and Waters. Serv. Letter, ser. 2 (402) : 4. [Mimeographed.] 



