HISTORIC TREES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 69, 22 March 1941, Page 2 (Supplement)

HISTORIC TREES.

< hie nT (Ue oldest and mightiest of living trees is the Dig Tree by the Zambesi. not far from tlte Victoria Falls, a baobab with a trunk over 66ft round. Old as it is. perltajw 20 centuries, it iyoung compared with a Cyprus tree near ilexico I ity, a veteran said to be about 0000 years old. In California stands n «iant roil wood known as General Shcrinan. It is 103 ft round the base. 272 ft liigh, has .">O,OOO cubic feet of serviceable timber and weighs about 6000 tons. 71 is believed to have, been about 30110 years old when Caesar came to Britain. Tall as (General Sherman is, he is beaten bv another redwood trc-e which rises 303 ft. Zeccheus climbed into a tree to s.ee .'esus pass liv; Drake climbed a tree in Panama and looked in wonder at the illimitable Pacific. The Duke of Portland used to boa*t that be bad a tree on liis est ato in Nottinghamshire so big that he could drive a coach and «i\

tlirtuigii it. By tlie fJreat North I'oad stands a tri-o in which Dick Tyrpin is believed to have sheltered. At Wormhill in Derbyshire is a tree which grew through the floor of the house where .lames Brindle.y. the engineer. Jived; and at Kose-on-Wye we may see a tree growing in a church. At Penshurst in Kent is the oak planted in the garden of the liotise where. Sir Philip Sidnev was horn. '