Here are pictures of the two oaks I mentioned in Lower Bank. I did not measure them: http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01337.jpg http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01338.jpg
Here are two pictures of the 8' 4" Friendship Elm, mentioned below. The first picture showing its Fall Foliage in 2002, and the second picture was taken a few days ago. http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=img716.jpg http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01350.jpg Also a scenic picture taken near the Elm: http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01351.jpg Also the twin Elms in Egg Harbor City that died a few years after I took the picture: http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=img715.jpg The stumps are still there, reaching to the tops of the lower story windows of that house. I know the trees were dead when they were cut. Here is the old 5' 10 1/2" Pitch Pine at Friendship, mentioned below: http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01341.jpg http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01342.jpg http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01343.jpg http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/dbarryc63/?action=view¤t=DSC01345.jpg On Feb 7, 6:17 pm, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > ENTS, > Yesterday I took a quick roadtrip to measure the Friendship Elm, as I call it. > To get to where that tree is from here, I have to drive through the little > village of Lower Bank, in Washington Township (Burlington County). Lower Bank > dates to the early 18th century. In front of one house there is a huge oak > tree. The house next door has another, which is almost as big. I and some > friends were in Lower Bank a few years ago, admiring the bigger of the two > trees, when I woman through open her upstairs window and asked if we were > admiring her tree. We said yes, and she explained that a naturalist came by > one day, asking if he could core it to see how old it was. She told us that > she wouldn't let him, and that the naturalist had to take his best guess. She > told us that he had said 375 years. That seems too old for the size of the > tree, and too old for the age of the village. My memory may be off a bit, and > she may have actually told us 275. I'm not sure. At any rate, I took some > pictures through the windshield of my truck yesterday on my > way up to Friendship. One day maybe I will stop by and ask if I could > measure the CBH. I will send a couple pictures later. > > So I went on to Friendship. Frienship is in the far northern part of Wharton > State Forest, and is a ghost town. It was a small village associated with a > cranberry growing business called Frienship Bogs, which shut down in the mid > 20th Century. The last two families to live there moved out in the late > 1950s, or possibly the early 1960s. The few buildings were subsequently > burned down by arsonists, very soon after. What you can find there today is a > grassy field full of cellar holes and foundations, with a nice, good sized > Elm tree in it, along with some younger Pitch Pines and a few Yucca plants. > Surrounding this field are regular Pine Barrens forests and cedar swamps, > along with all the old Friendship Bogs. I measured the Elm tree at 8' 4" CBH. > I will send a photo of it later. Incidentally, I measured a large Pitch Pine > there with a CBH of 5' 10 1/2". The top is broken off and laying on the > ground nearby, and the tree has a large scar on the trunk > from the ground up. > > Also if I can find it, I've got a photo of a nice Colonial Revival house on > US 30 in Egg Harbor City that had two beautiful Elm trees in front of it. > Unfortunately the Elm trees died several years ago. I'm not sure if it was > due to drought, or Dutch Elm Disease or what. What's left are the two stumps, > which reach as high as the second story windows on the house. > > Barry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
