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16_186 Berkeley - One Live Oak, opposite side creek from Power House has just fallen in storm. The top was in exceedingly bad condition, few leaves, no branchlets scarcely, but very twiggy. The top was however thorougly sound! Its condition was due to starvation caused by girdling of the bark at ground by rot. The rot worked down into one of the main big roots and showed up as a cavity 3 ft. beneath surface! Another tree near Center st. entrance is hollowed at base and one-sided top-heavy. I have just recommended to Hugel that a heavy limb of no importance to the tree physiologically be cut off. Also that a fallen |
16_187 January 10, 1907 Laurel at College st. entrance be attended to. Also cultivation around Le Conte Oak. - Hooker, J.D. elected honorary member Cal. Acad. Sci. [California Academy of Sciences], Jan. 3, '70. cf. Proc. Cal. Acad, 4, 105 - Kellogg, Dr. Albert, List of Alaskan Plants, p. 318, Report of Sup't U.S. Coast Survery, 1867. - F.W. Wright, Calistoga, says the Valley Oaks in the earthquake of April 1906, shook and waved their huge branches in the air as if an incredible windstorm were playing with them!! Like a man waving his arms. |
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