Vermont Telegraph

The Largest Tree in New England.

A giant of the forest, for many years the frequent subject of admiration to the curious visitor, has at length fallen, and we are enabled to give a more definite and certain description of it, than has been given of any of the large standing trees in our country. The tree to which we refer is an intervale Red or Sugar Maple, which has been standing on the farm and near the residence of Joseph Hobbs, Esq. of Ossipee, in this State. The circumference of the tree at the ground was 28 feet, and continued of about the same size 17 feet, perfectly straight and smooth as common
blistered bar steel. At this height it parted into two branches.

The first grand branch extending 34 feet, measuring at 51 feet from the ground four feet in diameter, or rather more than 12 feet in circumference: this branch then divided into five branches, which after running 15 feet were on an average 3 feet in circumference.

The second grand branch, after extending 39 feet, from the main trunk measured 11 feet 6 inches in circumference; it then divided into two branches, each of which at 19 feet (or 73 feet from the ground) measured 3 ft. 9 inches in circumference.

The length to the top was 96 feet.

Mr. Hobbs informs us, that he has made forty lbs. of sugar in a year from this tree.

It was injured by tapping, had partially decayed near the roots; but was sound after a few feet above the ground. In a severe gale of wind it was prostrated to the ground, and although much difficulty attended its preparation for the saw-mill, it is now mastered, and its product has just been ascertained to be 3,300 feet of inch boards, and nine cords of wood for fuel.

The tree was perfect in its symmetry, larger in circumference than any tree in New England, and probably as great in bulk as any tree in the United States. A gentleman who has seen the Ossipee Maple and the Ohio Sycamore, (which is a very low tree) pronounces the Ossipee as decidedly of the greatest bulk.-Portsmouth Jour.