THE AGE OF TREES: ONE GREW IN 550 A. D.
Inquiries as to the general age ol trees have shown that the pine tree sometimes attains 700 years as a maximum length of life ; 420 years is placed as the alloted span of the silver fir ; the larch lives, as a rule, about 275 years, the red beech 245, the aspen 210, the birch 200, the ash 170, the elder 115, the elm 130. The heart of the oak begins to rot at about the age of 300 years. Of the holly, it is said, there is a specimen 410 years old, near AschafTenburg, Germany. A count of the annular rings in a gigantic Californian redwood tree recently felled, shows that it began in 550 A.D., 1,358 years ago. It had reached a height of 350 feet, and a circumference of 90 feet at thf base.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 429, 10 January 1912, Page 2
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146THE AGE OF TREES: ONE GREW IN 550 A. D. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 429, 10 January 1912, Page 2
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