WORLDS OLDEST TREE.
Of all monsters living to-day none is older than a cypress tree in the little Indian village of Santa Maria del Tmle, in south.-western Mexico. With a circumference of 175 ft, this colossus of the plant kingdom has outlived 150 generations of men. and will probably live on indefinitely, or so long as people allow it to live. El Tule was a at the birth of Jesus; it was a king of the forest when Alexander the Great wept because he had no more realms to conquer; it was worshipped as a god when all Europe was still pagan. . . . To-day EI Tule stands within a stone fence and beside a beautiful church (writes Don Classman in "Chambers* Journal").. Just, a few hundred feet away there is another cypress of the same species, which the Indians call the son of EI Tule, and on the other side of El Tule is still another cypress,-which they call the grandson of El Tule. - But there is no proof that these trees, which are much younger, sprang from El Tule's seeds
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 8
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180WORLDS OLDEST TREE. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 8
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