"JimL" wrote in message
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:56:12 -0500, "Freckles"
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"JimL" wrote in message
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:47:32 GMT, (Doug Miller)
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The tree could easily be 300 years old, or 25.

300 years old, and only 40' tall??? Yeah, right. We're talking about oak
here,
not bristlecone pine.

Most oak varities will never see 40 feet tall.

The oak trees we had on our farm back in Kentucky were at least three feet
in diameter and well over 100 feet tall. There were hundreds of them all
over the area in Kentucky where I lived.

For every 100 foot oak tree, there are a million scrub oak and
blackjack oak with an average height of 15 to 25 feet.

Millions?

Those may be called trees, but I think they are actually bushes or shrubs.