The Daily Spy

LARGE TREES. We referred a day or two since, to a very large tree in California, which measured thirty-six feet in circumference and twelve feet across the stump. Probably the largest trees in the world are to be found in Mexico. The banyans and cypresses in particular grow to an extraordinary size, and there are pines between Puebla and the city of Mexico, much taller and larger than any in New England—or at least than any we have happened to see. At the foot of Chapultepec is the far-famed cypress of Montezuma. It measures forty-one feet in circumference and fifty-one over some of its excrescences, and from fourteen to seventeen feet in diameter! It is a monster to behold—a monarch of the wood—and its regal crown is tasseled as if with silver threads, which glistened in the sunlight, like the twigs of one of our trees, when the morning finds them covered and interlaced with icicles or new snow. We presume there were more canes made from branches of the Montezuma cypress, by Americans in Mexico, than from the flag-staff of Chapultepec, or any other of those objects of interest which the knife of Yankees abroad is always sure to lay under contribution.

Lowell Courier.