Sounds like a book to add to my book collection. I have discussed this before, but there was monumental work published in 1911 that is considered the botanical Bible for the Pine Barrens. It has a very long title and sub-title, but is sometimes known as Stone, named for the author, Witmer Stone. Stone mentions a single Bald Cypress tree on the banks of the Sluice Creek near Dennisville in Cape May County. He wrote the book in 1910, and he describes the man who found the tree, saying that older local residents remembered the tree from their youth and remember it always being large. There was also another one formerly along the same creek closer to the bay. That tree was gone by the time Stone wrote the book. Stone also mentions Bald Cypresses in the Meadowlands near Newark (the trees you mention). He says these and the Sluice Creek tree are the only Bald Cypresses in New Jersey in a natural state, Unfortunately the Meadowlands trees are long gone, leaving just the Sluice Creek tree. All others in the state were either planted or are escapees somehow. A naturalist friend of mine is supposed to take me to see some trees, including the Sluice Creek Bald Cypress. I saw it back in the 90s, but I can't remember how to get to it again. Barry --- On Sat, 8/29/09, Gary Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Gary Smith <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Bald Cypress found last week To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 12:19 PM Barry, to follow up, I checked my book shelf and in a book titled "The Great Cypress Swamps" by the great John Dennis, it mentions that there is supposed to be a stand of bald cypress in a swampy area near Newark, N.J., another at a pond in eastern Long Island, and still another 35 miles north of NYC, near the Bear Mountain Bridge. It is thought these stands could be attributed to seeds eaten by wood ducks in "ornamental plantings not far away and carried by the birds in their crops or stomachs" to the aforementioned sites. John Dennis was a wonderful naturalist and free-lance writer. He took one of the very last photos of the ivorybilled woodpecker, in Cuba in the late '40s. He also felt he saw the bird in the Big Thicket in TX in the '60s. On Aug 29, 1:52 pm, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > How interesting. I haven't heard about that. > > --- On Sat, 8/29/09, Gary Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Gary Smith <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Bald Cypress found last week > To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 9:59 AM > > Seeded by a wood duck, I reckon. > > There is supposed to be a pretty nice grove of bald cypress credited > to wood ducks, either in N.J. or Long Island, N.Y., can't recall > which, offhand. > > On Aug 28, 9:33 pm, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Last week I was at Atsion, another of our ghost towns. Near the > > ironmaster's mansion I found a very small Bald Cypress growing along a > > stream bank, a very appropriate place for one to be. But what the heck is a > > Bald Cypress doing in the pine barrens? I don't know. I know the one at > > Weymouth was planted. > > Anyway, attached are some photos of the tree and some of its knees. Enjoy, > > Barry > > > DSC03564.JPG > > 426KViewDownload > > > DSC03565.JPG > > 254KViewDownload > > > DSC03566.JPG > > 180KViewDownload- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
