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TOPIC: Oak Hill Cemetery
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/4d81f2d27bba8d4d?hl=en
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Date: Thurs, Oct 23 2008 7:17 pm
From: "Dale Luthringer"


ENTS,

On 7/25/08 I was driving back from a meeting and passed a little
cemetery in Stoneboro, PA, Mercer County. I often like to drive through
old cemeteries. You never know what someone planted there, or which
trees might have some age in open growing conditions. It sometimes can
lead to a new big tree discovery. Well, the Oak Hill Cemetery was no
exception.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pamercer/PA/Cemetery/OakHill/oakhill.htm 

A quick drive around the main road brings one smack into a very nice
European larch (41 20.322N x 80 4.821W). Largest I've yet to come
across, certainly the largest ENTS measured in PA, but doesn't top a
previously measured one in Irvine, PA (near Anders Run Natural Area).
The Oak Hill Larch comes in at a solid 12.6ft CBH x 86.3ft high x
62.74ft avg crown for 253 AF Points.

The Irvine European larch on Scotts PA Big Trees list notes a 10.7ft CBH
x 125ft high x 46ft spread for 265 AF Points at the Newbold Estate.

http://www.pabigtrees.com/trees/species/larix_larch.htm

I'm suspicious of this tree's measurements. If the Newbold Estate is
the same place that I've called the old "Irvine" Estate in the past,
this tree is NOT 125ft high. I know this tree. It's an obvious double
that I've measured at 10.8ft CBH x 114ft high back on 10/18/06. It is
located almost adjacent to the Anders Run Norway spruce Eastern U.S.
height champ located in the Anders Run Natural Area. If it's the same
tree, and we re-calculate for height and CBH, that double would then be
255 AF Points.

Anyway, the Oak Hill larch is definitely an impressive single.

Dale