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Foreign News
November 21, 1885
The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii
What is this article about?
A letter from Reykjavik describes discovering three healthy, 20-foot mountain ash trees in Iceland, contradicting the myth of only one protected dwarf tree.
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Iceland's Forest. [Reykjavik Letter.]
Some of you, perhaps, have heard of the one tree in Iceland: a dwarfed thing that the people wrap in clothes each winter to protect from the severity of the frosts. I had often been told and had read of this wonder, and naturally was anxious to see it, but to-day in this town I came upon three as large and handsome mountain ash or rowan trees as I remember ever of seeing. Standing about twenty feet in height they spread their branches over a large area, and are, to all appearances, healthy, flourishing trees, of which the people take no more care than we in our warmer climates do of ours.
Some of you, perhaps, have heard of the one tree in Iceland: a dwarfed thing that the people wrap in clothes each winter to protect from the severity of the frosts. I had often been told and had read of this wonder, and naturally was anxious to see it, but to-day in this town I came upon three as large and handsome mountain ash or rowan trees as I remember ever of seeing. Standing about twenty feet in height they spread their branches over a large area, and are, to all appearances, healthy, flourishing trees, of which the people take no more care than we in our warmer climates do of ours.
What sub-type of article is it?
Icelandic Flora
Natural Environment
What keywords are associated?
Iceland Trees
Reykjavik
Mountain Ash
Rowan Trees
Icelandic Flora
Where did it happen?
Reykjavik, Iceland
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Reykjavik, Iceland
Event Details
The writer, having heard of Iceland's single dwarf tree wrapped for winter protection, instead finds three large, flourishing mountain ash or rowan trees about twenty feet tall in Reykjavik, receiving no special care.