A Large Gum Tree

VVhat is probably one of the largest specimens of the túpelo or sour gum in the United States was found recentlv frowing1 in the Oemulgee river swamp, near Abbeville, Ga. It towers above he surrounding foreste of immense rees, and is more than twelve feet in liameter. There is a large hollow at he base, which extends upward for a iistance of fifteen feet, with an aperare large enough to admit a tall man. Che túpelo gum, which is botanically nown as nyssa aquatica, delights in wampy places, where it is frequently ound growing among deeiduous cy)ress, and endeavoring, apparently, to mitate it by sending from among its oots rudimentary "knees," similar to hat great southern monarchDetroii iee Press. Never buds - The whilBe tree.