^ LARGE LIVE OAKS. 
BY W. ST. J. MAZYCK, HAGLEY PLACE, S. C. 
Neither of the five live oaks, Q. virens, of 
which I write, are as large as the Cawthorpe 
Yorkshire oak, mentioned in your January 
number, hut they are very respectable sticks of 
timber nevertheless. At Old Town plantation, 
on the west bank of the Ashley river, the site 
of Charleston, which was abandoned about 1680 
for Oyster Point, there stands a live oak that 
measures thirty-two feet in circumference. 
One side of this tree was injured many years 
ago by fire. It must have been a big tree when 
the Indians burnt the town. 
At Peach-tree plantation, on the west bank of 
the South Santee, there is a live oak that meas- 
ures twenty-nine feet around, the first limb meas- 
uring sixteen feet around, and extending seventy- 
five feet. At midday it shades half an acre of 
ground. Prof. M. Numey said it was probably 
the finest tree this side of the Mississippi river, 
and that it was worth a man’s time and money 
to come from Canada to see it, — rather an ex- 
pensive trip in 1846 when he saw this tree. 
At Weehonoka plantation, on the east bank 
of the Waccamaw river, three live oaks grow 
near each other. The first one measures twenty 
feet, the second seventeen feet nine inches, and 
the third fifteen feet around. These trees were 
all measured in the smallest part ; all of them 
have the hour-glass shape to a greater or lesser 
degree. Not far from these last trees there is a 
common fox grape-vine, that measures four feet 
and two inches round. 
