Dale: Thanks for the pic of the Anders run spruce. I can't promise that my guess is any good, but looking at the picture and remembering other trees I do know the age of, I would guess it is about 100 years old, but it could be as old as 120 or so. there is a fine group of 130 year old spruce trees in the town of Addison, P.A. Take the turn off route 40 into the town to see them.
Bob: The most beautiful NS tree I have ever seen--but I haven't seen it for about 10 years or so, is in the town of Upper Marlboro, MD. As you come into town taking the exit off 410 (I think it is) from D.C. there is a kind of a circle as you enter the town. To the west side is a house up on a hill, and there is the tree. It is listed in the MD large trees list--or was. It is very old, very lush. The top is spire-like and very open and picturesque. Lower down the crown is still open and has wonderful weeping branchlets. The bottom third of the tree is a full cascading "waterfall" of weeping foliage. In NY areas around the town of Casanovia, etc. have lots of trees. Clinton, NY has wonderful trees. A former national champion NS tree-- one I arranged to have measured, is on the Campus of Hamilton College (in the Root Glen area). Well, I could go on and on! --Gaines On Jan 4, 3:32 pm, [email protected] wrote: > Spruce, > > You may be interested to know that the tallest accurately measured Norway > spruce in Massachusetts grows in Mohawk Trail State Forest in one of those > un-thinned plantations that is still sorting itself out. The tree is 129.3 > feet in height. John Eichholz, Andrew Joslin, and I measured it some week ago. > > Originally, I fell prey to the non-native species disparaging arguments. But > my forester friend Joe Zorzin kept discussing the virtues of the Norway > spruce and why we don't need to disparage it. One day I took off the blinders > and saw it as the noble, beautiful species that it is. I've loved it ever > since. > > There are some beauties in New York's Taconic State Park. Several are in the > 120-foot height class. Most are 7 to 8 feet in girth. Another place where you > can see drop dead gorgeous Norways is in Lenox, Mass. > > Bob > > -- 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]
