People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — TALL TREES. [ARTICLE]

TALL TREES.

The World’* Largest Timbers and Where They Are Found. The Kew Bulletin tells as that “the tallest gum treesand the tallest trees in the world are found in the gullies of Victoria, several trees having been measured that were more than 400 feet high, and the highest was 471 feet." Vistors to the Indo-Colonial exhibition will remember the size and beauty of other Australian woods, especially of the specimens exhibited in the Queensland court. The finest tree in the world is said to be the Agassiz, one of the sequoia gigantea, 31 feet in diameter, nearly 300 feet in height, and of remarkable symmetry. At the Paris exhibition of 1878 there' were shown no fewer than 2,530 specimens of wood from India, belonging to 900 species and 432 genera. And a more recent exhibition, that held in Edinburgh in 1884, made us acquainted with the glories of the Japanese woods, and those of the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Go to the East India docks and you will see the huge logs of padowk (pterocarpus Indicus), a tree rivaling mahogany in the depth of the color of its wood and the density of its texture. Here, too, the .stinkwood, the oreodaphne bullata of South Africa, vies, in spite of its ill-chosen name, with the teak (tectona grandis) of Burmah and Malabar. Or, if you prefer to see growing timber, cross over to Germany and note the massive beech trees of Hesse Nassau, whose branchless stems contains no less than 19,525 cubic feet per hectare, or nearly 8,000 cubic feet of rtmber per acre. • • - , Gus —“It doesn’t pay to get tight, Jim.” Jim—“No; I wish it did. I’d have made enough money last night to get tight on again.”—gcjitlx Gray & Co.’s Monthly.