Barry,
Great find! There is a tuliptree here in Florence that is about the same size, a little over 16 feet CBH. The Florence tree is 122 feet tall. I should go photograph it and present it as the twin to your tree. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Caselli" <[email protected]> To: "ENTS" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 5:38:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] 16 foot Tuliptree!! ENTS, Today I went out at around 9 or 10 am, and saw that it was an absolutely perfect day. The weather was perfection, without exaggeration. There was not a cloud in the sky. After buying my morning coffee and my lunch for the day, I was trying to think of a place to hike. Then it hit me. I haven't really taken any church pictures in many months, mainly because of either rain or overcast skies. Then I was thinking of a particular church that I knew I didn't have good pictures of, down in Cumberland County. So later on I topped off the gas tank in my truck and went for it. But anyway, first I went to the Deerfield Presbyterian church. The one I really wanted to go to was the Deerfield Methodist Church. But that church faces more west than the Presbyterian Church, so I knew I had to do the Presb. church first. It was too shady with the trees around it though. But this is where the big trees are! There are Buttonwood trees all around the church. They might be 10 to 11 footers, similar in size to the ones at Batsto. But in the back of the cemetery I found two Black oaks and a hickory (which was much smaller than them). I measured the larger of the two oaks and it came out at 13' 1" in CBH. Very nice. I thought that tree was enormous. Meanwhile at the other end of the cemetery there was a huge Tuliptree. I had never walked up close to it before as I had the other trees in the cemetery. So I walked over and looked, and I was astounded at its size! So I measured it, and found it to be 16' 2", or maybe an inch larger than that. It was simply amazing. I've attached all my photos of it. Hope you enjoy. By the way, Deerfield is in Upper Deerfield Township, Cumberland County. I clocked the distance home from there and it was 37 miles, the longest distance I've driven in many months. The church congregation was founded in 1737 and the church building dates, for the most part, from 1771. So the trees around it could be that old. As for the tuliptree, it may be the largest I've ever seen, depending on how big the one near where I work measures up. Barry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
