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(Doug Miller) wrote in
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In article 36,
Patriarch wrote:

In the backyard of a house owned by my wife's sister is a black
walnut, 50+ years old. Maybe 54" diameter at breast height.

54" DIAMETER??????????

Surely you mean circumference.

Certainly not circumference. It's perhaps a little smaller than 54"
diameter, but huge. It's going to take a good sized cherry picker and boom
truck to get the top down, and there's storm damage up there, 35' or higher
in the crown.

It is a _very_ large tree, particularly for suburban California. Maybe I
can get some pictures this week.

Patriarch