HUNGARY’S OLDEST TREE
550-YEAR-OLD HAZEL Hungary’s oldest tree has caused consternation among the foresters of Diosgyor by showing signs of dry rot. In spite of daily watering during the prolonged drought, only a few leaves have appeared this year, and the fear is expressed that its days are numbered. The tree, a Turkish hazel, 23 metres high, with a circumference of 16 metres and a trunk of 21 metres in diameter, has for centuries been popularly believed to be one which was planted five hundred and fifty years ago by Queen Marie, wife of King Zsigmond, and daughter of King Lajos the Great. At the end of the last century experts examined the tree and established the fact that its age actually did correspond to the age of the tree recorded to have been planted by the Queen. For some time on the estate of a judge, the tree now belongs to the State forests, having been bought as an object of historical interest.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 554, 5 January 1929, Page 24
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164HUNGARY’S OLDEST TREE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 554, 5 January 1929, Page 24
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