THE AGES OF TREES
"I was looking at an enormous and very ancient yew tree in ii Herefordshire churchyard, and was nssurcil by the old 6exton that it was .It leasil 1000 years old (relates a writer in "John 0' London's Weekly"). Though I did not say so, 1 look the liberty of doubting the staifement, for I fancy there aro few trees of such an ago in England. The Tortwcrth chestnut figures upon a charter dated 1135, and so is probably well on towards the end of its tenth century, and thero is an oak a» Tilford 1 , near Farnham. wliich was thoro in the year 1250. The heart' of tho common oak, showever, begins to rot at the age of 300 years, so ovet> when an oak is undisturbed it rarely lives much beyond 600 years. The conifers are long lived. A larch ma;,- live 275 years, a silver fir 425, and a pins over 500 years. The yew, of course, has the greatest; powers of resisting time's ra*Sss«i, and may survive for 1000 years or more.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 81, 30 December 1920, Page 5
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179THE AGES OF TREES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 81, 30 December 1920, Page 5
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