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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, WILKES-BARRE, P*burtuj* *.Ui'fA ULx\ ,, 1'viOi.STATE NEWS PACEBETTER EARLY THAN NEVER—Pfc. Edwin Tatem, Camden, N. J., is a mail clerk with his outfit in Korea, so he can open his Christmas presents before regular mail call. This one, from hisfolks, reached him in plenty of time—with some to spare.ennsylvanHas LargestOf 13 Species;Virgin TractsThe American Forestry Association credits Pennsylvania with having the largest known examples of 13 specie* of trees. This does not mean that each of these trees is immense in size, since of them belong to varieties which never grow very large. Some nn*SylV ania S trees ’ arc, however, quite remarkablehat is believed to be the largest sycamore is a tree with a trunk 25 feet, four inches in circumference, located in Oonshohoeken. Thelargest white ash tree in the United States is found in Glen Mills, Philadelphia, as reported by . , . , .the American Forestry Associa-I ,s nam ^or our Common-tion. It is 21 feet in clrcumfer-l?rcfIth» “Acer p«nnsylvanlcum.w ence. 98 feet tall, with a spread of;U 15 ?ulte that other andbranches 91 feet in diameter. The|Gven ^ar8fr trees of some of these known American beech ig SP^ies are growing in Pennsyl-16 feet, seven inches in cir-!vam* but have not been reported cumference and 75 feet tall. It is ^be Forestry Association.located near Morrisville. The Pinr* and Hemlocks largest American linden is 16 feet.j No list of Pennsylvania's big three inches in circumference and;trees can be complete without a rises to a height of 305 feet, on mention of the grove of towering Camelback Mountain in Monroej virgin pines and hemlocks (our County. state tree) in the Cook ForestPawpaw Never' Large State Park, which is one of theThe pawpaw is never a large last remaining tracts of Penn's tree. It is found more commonly t Woods as they existed at the in the South and West than in time of the founding of our Oom-Pennsylvania, but the largest! monwealth.pawpaw reported in America1 It is not only by the size to grows in Lancaster and has a‘which trees have grown, and are trunk four feet, nine inches in!growing, in Pennsylvania’s forest circumference and a height of 251 land that our Commonwealth atill feet. | justifies Its name. There. Are moreState College ranks well ahead commercial tree nurseries raisingHARRISBURG slderahle alarm agricultural officinew swine disevesicular exnnthespread througho\ The State Pep? culture hai rece the presence of the fifteenth farof all other Pennsylvania communities in its number of trees.more seedlings for reforestation, and more Chistmas tree nlanta-The newest ou on a swine feedin ducted as a sideliiowner in Lehigh antlne against m from the feed lotlished by the de]The department outbreak of VK : where It haa applt; where the diseai traced directly Uuncooked garbageThe new inf«lt; county is believe through hogs pMontgomery countlon. Agents arlt; track down the Inspection of all sent hogs to the
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Wilkes Barre Sunday Independent
Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Dec 07, 1952
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