Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . Old Cedar of Lebanon yard, 242 State Street. This tree is 19 feet in circumference a footabove the ground, 54 feet high, with a stretch of 90 feet across itsbranches, one branch being 53 feet long. The great breadth and lowheight of this tree indicates that it grew in the open. Within thememory of residents still living there were several similar oaks growingnear this one. It is stated that there was an Indian Village here whenthe white men fi
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . Old Cedar of Lebanon yard, 242 State Street. This tree is 19 feet in circumference a footabove the ground, 54 feet high, with a stretch of 90 feet across itsbranches, one branch being 53 feet long. The great breadth and lowheight of this tree indicates that it grew in the open. Within thememory of residents still living there were several similar oaks growingnear this one. It is stated that there was an Indian Village here whenthe white men first came, and those old oaks probably were left to growin their cultivated fields for the acorns they bore. Two beautiful rows of oaks line Bowne Avenue from Broadway toSanford Avenue. They were set out by the Parson brothers about 1848before the Avenue was opened. Originally there were 21 varieties, butsome have disappeared. At present there are white, burr, chestnut, pin,willow-leafed, and possibly black, red and scarlet oaks—most of them 16 FLUSHING AND VICINITY. Cedar of Lebanon17th Street, Near Broadway vigorous—the largest being over 9 feet incircumference 4 feet above the ground. Flushings most noted tree is the old Cedarof Lebanon, standing in the field betweenChestnut and Bayside Avenue, about 400feet West of the Whitestone trolley history of this tree is lost. It is 13 feetin circumference 7 feet above the ground, 62feet 8 inches high and 75 feet across. Thereare two other Cedars of Lebanon, one in thelawn of the Prince Homestead near Law-rence Street on Jackson Avenue, the otherin 17th Street South of Broadway. Flushing has 14 Cedars of Mt. Atlas, ahardier species of the same genus as Cedarof Lebanon. They are to be found one onthe South side of the Davies place on BowneAvenue, one back of Mr. J. D. Wells housebeside the new High School, 4 aregrowing on the South side of ChestnutStreet near Parsons Avenue, and sev-eral are growing where the old PrinceNur
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