Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1915 — WALNUT TREE IS 46 YEARS OLD [ARTICLE]

WALNUT TREE IS 46 YEARS OLD

Nearly 23 Feet Around and Larger Than Colusa’s Giant Colusa, Cal., Is laying claim to having the largest California black walnut in the world, but the dimensions of the Colusa tree do not come up to those of a tree that is growing on F. W. Schultz’s farm on Sycamore Slough, six miles northeast of Arbuckle, also in Colusa County. Some time ago a naccount in newspapers first brought this monster tree before the reading public, and it is receiving much attention throughout the state. The agricultural department of the State University wrote Schutx about it, stating that information sent by hi™ would be used in a book that the department is compiling. In answer to the request of the university authorities Mr. Schutz has taken accurate measurement sos the trhe> which are as follows: Circumference one foot from the ground, twenty-two feet, eight inches (below this the roots appear above the surface of the ground, making the tree about twentysix feet); circumference nine feet from the ground, nineteen feet, nine inches; height, it>2 feet; width of shadow at noon, 120 feet. The big tree is 46 years old, having been planted in 1868 by D. Arnold, a Colusa County pioneer.