WORLD’S OLDEST TREE.
GROAVING SINCE 1026.
AIADE INTO HISTORY RECORD.
A novel way of bringing home to visitors, the great age of a tree felled in Yoscmite Park has been adopted by the American authorities.
A tree makes one ring of wood for each year’s growth. When this giant came to be examined after the woodman's axe had laid it low it. was found to have 896 rings, so that it- must have sprouted as a tiny seedling in 1026, or 40 years before William'tho Conqueror fought the battle of Hastings. r It was decided to mount a section of the trunk, and to color with paint, the rings that corresponded with great events "in the world’s history, placing a label on each-to show the year it represented and the important happening that took place. Near tno middle is a line marking the Norman Conquest of England. The tree was a big fellow whon Joan of Arc was burnt, while when Columbus first set foot in America it had reached flic ago of 600 years.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16115, 2 May 1923, Page 8
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175WORLD’S OLDEST TREE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16115, 2 May 1923, Page 8
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