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TOPIC: Richardson "hemlock"
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/f5c89ac287db1670?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Mar 30 2008 8:15 am
From: Michael Davie


Hello all-
I found this page:
http://www.highlandshistory.com/HHS/exhibit4/e40004b.htm
looking up information on George Masa, a very interesting guy in his
own right. Now, I'm about 99 percent certain that the tree in the
photo is a chestnut oak, but it's pretty impressive in it's own right.
I'm wondering if they've got some other photographs from this place
that might show the 19' 6" hemlock that was supposed to exist there.

== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Mar 30 2008 7:13 pm
From: "Edward Frank"


Mike,

Thanks for the link. I wish I were better at identifying trees by their bark. Identifying very old trees, on old photographs is even harder. Old trees may have an atypical bark pattern that is seen only on the oldest trees. One thing that would tend to sway me toward this being a hemlock is that they provide information on the photograph itself - they could be simply referring to a different photo, but they do identify the person in the photo and the date. And also the fact he shot only 97 photos in the sequence. From the text it sounds like all of his photographs are

The Richardson hemlock had reached 19 feet 6 inches in circumference by September, 1943. Henry Wright stands to the side of this photo in 1929. The tree stood in "Richardson Woods," which belonged to Henry H. Richardson of Brookline, Mass., who had bought almost 300 acres of primeval forest north of Bear Pen Mountain in the late 1910s and agreed to hold it until a club, formed by Thomas Harbison, could meet his price of almost $20 per acre. Unfortunately it never materialized, and the primeval forest is no more.


 
Richardson Hemlock vs the Cheoh Hemlock



Cheoh hemlock farther up



The only good photo I have of chestnut oak bark -  Connemara Chestnut Oak 8 ft 11.25 inc cbh

It does look lie Chestnut Oak, but I can't say for sure.

Ed Frank

== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Mar 30 2008 7:54 pm
From: ForestRuss@aol.com

Ed:

It sure looks like chestnut oak bark from here....about a 225 year old
tree...but that is just a guess.

Russ