Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1893 — Oldest Tree in the World. [ARTICLE]

Oldest Tree in the World.

London Notes and Queries. ■ Rev. W. Tuck well, in “Tongues in Tree’s and Sermons in Stones” (George Allen, 1891,) says: “The oldest living tree in the world is -said to be the Soma cypress of Lombady. It was a tree forty years before the~birth of Christ." But Alphonse Karr, in his “Voyage autour de non Jardin” (Warne & Co., translation edited by the Rev. J. G. Wood), says of the baobab (adansonia digitata:) “It is assest that some: exist in Senegal that are 5,000 years old.”