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But for that matter, the largest known iumber tree in the world, a red- 

 wood recently found in Big Lagoon, Huinboldt County, California, is only 20 feet 

 in diameter 5 feet above the ground and 308 feet hi^-jh. But that one tree has 

 enough luraoer in it to build 22 average sized houses. 



Another hind of the world's big trees is the Kauri tree of New Zealand. 



It is a peculiar- looking tree. - — At least, it is to our way of thinking 



The Kauri tree has a barrel shaped trunk and a top like a feather duster. 

 There is practically no taper to the trunk. So you can readily understand, 

 that kind of tree has a lot of lumber in it. One in the Tutaxnoc Forest is said 

 to be one 22 feet in diameter and 100 feet high to the first branch. It scales 

 220,000 board feet, as against 361,366 board feet of that record holding big 

 redwood, of ours. ' 



And while we are mentioning big trees, I guess we will have to include 

 the famous banyan trees of India. They have such a peculiar way of growing, 

 it is hard to thinlc of them in the same way we do other trees. You know a 

 banyan tree has many trunks and spreads over an imnense area like a forest. 

 There is one banyan tree on the Nurbudda River in \7estem India which measures 

 2,000 feot around the outside of its many trunlcs. That one tree has 350 big 

 trunks and 300 small ones, beside the main central trunk from which all those 

 others originated. 



But •vhon we are talking about giants a^nong trees, it is well to remember 

 that our smaller kinds of trees have giants after their kind. 



The Su^:)crintendant of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North 

 Carolina and Tennessee, recently reported a living chestnut tree 30 feet in 

 circumference, and a tulip tree which measures 18 feet around. 



Also a gigojitic grapevine 60 inches around at a point 12 feet above the 

 ground. That one grapevine is being supported by five big trees, and the 

 botanists fi^^e it had started its upward climb before Lord Cornwallis sur- 

 rendered at Yorktown. 



Maybe in various parts of our country there arc many giants not do^rn in 

 the records. If you know of any other trees of exceptional size, The Forest 

 Products Laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin, would like to get reliable inforaa- 

 tion about them. 



A2T?:0U?TC5:.{E:TT ; i7ell, there certainly seem to be some giants left in the woods 



yet Two weeks from tod-v, our iTilds Man and the audience of this Station 



will again enjoy a visit with Uncle Sam's Naturalists of the United States Do- 

 oartmont of A<^ri culture. 



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