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Literary
June 18, 1903
The Paducah Sun
Paducah, Mccracken County, Kentucky
What is this article about?
Descriptive account of ancient live oaks in Florida, focusing on the largest specimen with branches spanning 120 feet, limbs like tree trunks, adorned with ferns, air plants, and massive grapevines, from Country Life in America.
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IMMENSE TREES IN FLORIDA.
Monarchs of the Forest That Have Stood for Centuries.
It is difficult even to guess at the age of the ancient live oaks, but some of them must number centuries and the oldest and greatest of them all is a monarch of the forest, with its outer branches sweeping the ground in a circle 120 feet across, with limbs as great as ordinary trunks of trees and bearing a garden of aerial ferns and air plants upon their bark. This venerable tree is supposed to be the largest live oak in Florida. Enormous grape-vine trunks rise sinuously from the ground and lose themselves amid the quarter-acre of foliage that crowns this tree; the saplings that once gave them support have disappeared long years ago, their only record being the angles and curves of grape-vine stem to which they lent their transient aid in climbing skyward.
-Country Life in America.
Monarchs of the Forest That Have Stood for Centuries.
It is difficult even to guess at the age of the ancient live oaks, but some of them must number centuries and the oldest and greatest of them all is a monarch of the forest, with its outer branches sweeping the ground in a circle 120 feet across, with limbs as great as ordinary trunks of trees and bearing a garden of aerial ferns and air plants upon their bark. This venerable tree is supposed to be the largest live oak in Florida. Enormous grape-vine trunks rise sinuously from the ground and lose themselves amid the quarter-acre of foliage that crowns this tree; the saplings that once gave them support have disappeared long years ago, their only record being the angles and curves of grape-vine stem to which they lent their transient aid in climbing skyward.
-Country Life in America.
What sub-type of article is it?
Essay
What themes does it cover?
Nature
What keywords are associated?
Live Oaks
Florida
Ancient Trees
Forest Monarchs
Aerial Ferns
Grape Vines
What entities or persons were involved?
Country Life In America
Literary Details
Title
Immense Trees In Florida.
Author
Country Life In America
Key Lines
With Its Outer Branches Sweeping The Ground In A Circle 120 Feet Across, With Limbs As Great As Ordinary Trunks Of Trees And Bearing A Garden Of Aerial Ferns And Air Plants Upon Their Bark.
Enormous Grape Vine Trunks Rise Sinuously From The Ground And Lose Themselves Amid The Quarter Acre Of Foliage That Crowns This Tree;