Nice tulip, Scott! The new elm champ must be massive if it's bigger than the beauties up in Coudersport.
Dale -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of pabigtrees Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:54 AM To: ENTSTrees Subject: [ENTS] big tulip found ENTS I gave a tree tour for the volunteers of the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College in Delaware Co. Pa. the other day. We had a nice half day tour to look at some local champion trees. After the tour, I wanted to measure some of the trees in the arboretum to include in the champion tree register. The last time I poked around there, I found a new champion Kentucky coffee tree and a new champion American Elm. This day we listed a new champion cut leaf Japanese maple and a Paw Paw. We then ventured into the woods behind the college where the Crumm Creek runs through to the Delaware River. The grounds manager wanted to show me a big tulip down in the draw that he thought was large. He led me down a steep trail towards the creek to a mammoth old tulip that weighed in with a cbh of 16.8'. I wasn't able to see the top, but a straight up laser shot provided 48 yds. This was a forest tree with a cylindrical trunk with little taper and no branches below 80 feet. What a sight. I hope to return in winter and try for a rucker index on this area, although I didn't see ten different species while I was there. We'll see. Scott W --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
