AND WISCONSIN TREES. A CIRCULAR ISSUED BY THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF WISCONSIN FOR THE USE OF THE Officers, Teachers and Children OF WISCONSIN SCHOOLS. MADISON, WIS., DEMOCRAT PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS, 1893. The great oak pictured above stands about three miles west of Whitewater, near the road to Janesville, on the farm of Miles Cravath. Its trunk girths at the ground 18 feet and 6 inches. Three feet higher, it measures 12 feet and 3 inches; and the cylindrical stem and ponderous limbs are perfectly sound, the tree being still in vigorous health. Its age can only be guessed, but it must have been already a fine specimen before Marquette floated his canoe in Wisconsin waters. It is presented as a typical bur oak (Quercus Macrocarpa), in the sense of showing what this tree becomes under the most favorable conditions, plenty of room, deep soil, and immunity from accident. Its great symmetry and the lack of some of the angularity of the average bur oak, are evidences of its unbroken prosperity. |