When traveling in India I was frequently shown trees over 1,000 years old. The cubbeer-burr, near Baraach, has 350 main trunks and 3,000 small ones. It is believed to be 3,000 years old.

Near the base of Chapultepec are the stone baths of Montezuma's time, shaded by waving cypresses supposed to be over 1,000 years old.

The yew trees of England attain a great age. Those at Fountain Abbey are over 1,200 years old; there is one at Crowhurst 1,500, and one at Braburn the age of which is stated to be from 1,500 to 2,000 years.

The oak, though slow of growth yet towering in height, reaches a great age. De Canolle states that there are oaks in France 1,500 years old. The Wallace Oak, near Paisley, Scotland, still strong and stalwart, has seen full 700 years.

It has been stated, upon what has been considered good authority, that the apple-tree was in existence in 1820, from which Newton saw the apple fall in 1665.

There are two flourishing orange trees in Rome, planted by St. Dominick and Thomas Aquinos; the one 500, the other nearly 600 years of age.

When visiting Jerusalem and other portions of Palestine a few years since, I saw many ancient cedars and evergreens. The scraggy olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane are considered to be over 1,000 years old. The terebinth trees of the Bible, now very scarce in Syria, lived full 2,000 years.

Those who have counted the rings of the California big trees pronounce some of them as old or older than the Christian era.