Sycamore, Burr Oak, Butternut   wad-@comcast.net   Jun 05, 2006 11:00 PDT  Bob Sounds like a beauty! We have a 500+ sycamore here in Pa that I want to see, but it is a day trip to get out to it. I visited the State champ Burr oak this weekend. 20.6' CBH 98.2' tall with a max spread of 114' It is in Millersville, Lancaster County. I had a conference there. I also visited a Butternut that was big and found another butternut that was 106' tall. The area called Wheatland in Lancaster county has more walnut, butternut and shagbark than I have ever seen anywhere. It is like there was a rule for planting. It is a suburban environment too. Scott old tulip poplar, chestnut tree trials   wad-@comcast.net   Jun 17, 2006 06:28 PDT  Dale, ENTS Visited a 16.6 x 112.6 tulip tree yesterday. It is a single trunk to about thirty feet, where it opens up into a broad canopy. the branches were 24"-30" thick, so the tree had alot of volume. It is located at a mid eighteen hundreds methodist camp. The camp is still active, with about 70 residents in the summer living in tthese tiny little houses that are smack up against each other. You and buy one for around $5,000. they are shut down in winter though. From there we went to a DuPont Estate. This gentleman was the last DuPont torun the company. His estate consists of 2500 acres of prime realestate along the brandywine river. We visited an old Japanese Chestnut orchard on the property. I also have permission to explore the property for big trees!! From there we had a private tour of the nursery and trials fields at Longwood gardens. I saw my first Taxodium mucronulatum there, Mexican bald cypress. I am going to see if I can wrangle one away from them for my collection. We looked at about 30 Chestnuts that are F1, F2, F3, F4, and F5 hybrids that are part of the Chestnut Foundations attempts at revitalizing the tree. Straight species of Chinese and American were present also. It was a great day to be away from work. Scott   Home