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Title: Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forestry), no. 11
Identifier: bulletinpennsylv11pennx (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Pennsylvania. Dept. of Forestry
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : The Department : WM. Stanley Ray, state printer of Pennsylvania
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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bi a; -^^ w K o ^ ^ H J %^ W â »' 'k' >i hH â¢^^ rA J» 'n^ *r^ « k-H <> \o Oi tt :3 ⢠>^ i^ X 37 The people who live in the vicinity of the tree call it the "green tree" for it is a green tree and stands in strong contrast to all other trees in the neighborhood. In fact there is no other tree exactly like it in Pennsylvania. It is a variety of the Common Juniper which varies from an extremely erect to a decidedly prostrate habit. The erect form is usually called "Irish Juniper" and the prostrate form is the "Prostrate Juniper." A large number of cuttings have been taken from the Prostrate Juniper of Dauphin County. Many of them have developed into thrifty young trees. About 100 are thriving at the Masonic Homes at Elizabethtown in Lancaster County. No seeds have ever been found on the parent tree and consequently, the only way to produce it has been by the cutting method. The Prostrate Juniper is a native of the north woods. One meets it in northern Europe and in Siberia and it occurs rather commonly in Canada. It is also found in a few localities about the Great Lakes and in New England. The Dauphin County specimen is the most southern outpost of this unique tree. It is thought that a wild pigeon or some other migratory bird carried the seed from the north- woods and deposited it in Dauphin County where it has developed into Pennsylvania's most unique tree. The Boy Scouts of Elizabethtown serve as custodians of this unique tr^e. They have posted signs requesting all visitors to help protect the tree. It is a natural object worthy of protection and every effort should be put forth to protect it from unnecessary damage. If well protected, it may live many more years. PENNSYLVANIA'S MOST MASSIVE TREE What is believed to be the most massive tree in Pennsylvania is a Sycamore or Buttonwood that stands about four miles south of Lancaster between the Lincoln Highway and the Marietta turnpike. It has a circumference of 27 feet and 6 inches, at 18 inches above the ground and at five feet above the ground it is over 22 feet in circumference. The tree has a height of 102 feet and its branch spread from east to west is 118 feet and from north to south 138 feet. It has three main branches. They are 70, 72, and 84 feet long re- spectively. All three of these branches are fully as large as an average sized tree. One of them is more than nine feet in circum- ference at 18 inches from the stem and reaches out horizontally for 40 feet where it is only six feet from the ground and sweeps upward for more than 30 feet. This is truly a wonderful tree. It is unquestionably more than two centuries old and stands out as a veteran among all the other trees of the neighborhood. INTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE

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