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TOPIC: Curwensville, PA Honey Locusts
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Date: Thurs, Oct 11 2007 4:16 pm
From: "Edward Frank"


ENTS,

Today I went looking for examples of Allegheny Plum. I did not find them, but I did get chance to measure some nice honey locusts. I measured 8 trees that likely were planted as a windbreak for a 170 year old house located just east of Curwensville, in Clearfield County in west central Pennsylvania. 

The owner of the house Tim Ammerman told me a little about the history of the house and allowed me to measure the trees. They were not gigantic in size, but looked pretty old. The bark was deeply grooved and some of the trees had good sized clusters of paired thorns and epicormic sprouts.

Honey Locust

cbh height

8' 0" 58'
8' 4" 72'
6' 7" 74'
6' 7" 73.5'
6' 11" 65'
5' 8" 66'
9' 0" 74'
7' 11" 66'

Honey Locust - photo by Edward Frank

Also at the house was a nicely formed European White Birch

cbh 6' 10", height 51 feet.

Ed Frank