Calvary Episcopal Church Trees, Fletcher, NC  
  

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TOPIC: Calvary Episcopal Church Trees
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/d12c486d29807fc3?hl=en 
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Date: Tues, Mar 18 2008 9:27 pm
From: James Parton


ENTS,

Last Wednesday on her way home from work, my soon to be wife Joy noticed how large the trees were on the property of Calvary Episcopal Church. She stopped and took a few photos and brought them back to show me. I saw a cemetery full of not only gravestones but really nice trees! The Cemetery is about 150 years old and the trees have had a chance to obtain a good size. Saturday we went back to check the site out and my first word on sight of the trees was WoW! . 15 of them had a circumference of 10 feet or greater! Several others had a girth above 8.5 feet cbh. The most outstanding tree was in my opinion the Dawn Redwood. I think the current NC state record is at the Biltmore Estate. I visited it last year. This Redwood is really close to it in size. Maybe I can get a laser-wielding ent ( Like Will Blozan ) to measure the height on the tree and see if it has a chance against the Biltmore tree. They were some species I had trouble identifying, especially since they are no
leaves yet on the trees. Anyway, here are the cbh measurements. I am not sure of the species of oak I have listed as Willow Oak but the foliage is willow like and the bark is a match in my guides. The willow like leaves are easily found on the ground beneath these trees as are the small acorns.

Dawn Redwood_Calvary1.jpg (88133 bytes)

Dawn Redwood		 DawnRedwoodCones1.JPG (106260 bytes)
 Dawn Redwood Cone
Joy_DawnRedwood1.JPG (82415 bytes)
 Joy and Dawn Redwood Trunk

http://www.calvaryfletcher.org/ 


7' 9 3/4" Catalpa?
11' 1" ?
12' 3 1/2" Beech
12' 10" White Oak
13' 1 1/2" Willow Oak
6' 7 1/2" American Holly ( Nice tall tree! )
11' 3" Eastern Hemlock ( Highly infested by HWA )
13' 4" White Oak
11' 5" White Oak
8' 4 1/2" Locust? no thorns.
13' 9 1/2" Willow Oak
8' 2 1/2" Tuliptree
14' 11 1/2" Willow Oak
8' 9 1/2 " Dawn Redwood ( Possible state record! )
11' 8" Willow Oak
6' 3 1/2" Sweetgum ( Unusual rough barked specimen )
13' 4" Willow Oak
16' 9" Willow Oak ( fused trunked tree )
10' 2" Maple?
5' 1" Weeping Cherry
9' 11 1/2" White Pine
9' 0" White Pine
9' 11" White Oak
8' 3 1/2" Oak ( Uncertain of species )
12' 5 1/2" Willow Oak

16ft_9in_WillowOak1.JPG (82559 bytes)
 16 foot 9 inch Willow Oak		 Joy_Willow Oak_Calvary1.jpg (104159 bytes)
 Willow Oak
Willow Oak_Calvary1.jpg (95993 bytes)
 Willow Oak


I have attached some pictures to this post as well as uploaded some to the file page. One tree I forgot to measure was a nice Dogwood. Calvary also has some decent Norway Spruce.

Beech1.JPG (88989 bytes)
 Beech		 White Oak_Calvary1.jpg (104605 bytes)
 White Oak

I measured another large oak coming home in the rain from Calvary. It was 13' 5" cbh and located across from Manual Woodworkers & Weavers.

James Parton

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Date: Wed, Mar 19 2008 12:21 am
From: Gary Smith


James,

Nice photos. That dawn redwood is impressive. Unless I'm mistaken,
after rediscovery the first dawn redwoods were brought into the U.S.
sometime in the 1940s, so that redwood, whenever it was planted, has
done very well.

Gary S.

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TOPIC: Calvary Episcopal Church Trees
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/d12c486d29807fc3?hl=en
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Date: Wed, Mar 19 2008 8:03 am
From: James Parton


Gary,

The Dawn Redwood was discovered in fossils in 1941 and actual living
trees were first found in China in 1944. Yes, the tree has done well
and is a fast grower. It's closest relative is the Baldcypress.

Thanks on the congratulations. It is definitly going to be a change,
but a positive one. Joy has been my hiking and treehunting companion
for over a year now and she loves it! That's my kinda girl!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasequoia 

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/DENDRO/DENDROLOGY/SYLLABUS/factsheet.cfm?ID=98 


Calvary Episcopal Church is located between Hendersonville and
Asheville NC in the small town of Fletcher. An Ingles store is across
from it. Manual Woodworkers and Weavers is located on Howard Gap Rd
just outside of Hendersonville NC. Will just e-mailed me and told me
of some oriental spruce that resides at Calvary.

James P.