The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - Freaks of Nature: Trees Five Thousand Years Old

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(source: NIU Libraries)
Online Full Text: Northern Illinois University
Series: Good News v. 14 no. 360 — page 13
Subject / Tag: Sketch
Part of: Good News, v. 14, no. 360, March 27, 1897 (Issue)
Date: March 27, 1897
Edition Description: Part of the "Freaks of Nature" Department.
First Sentence: The baobab tree, which grows to perfection only in the valley of the Congo, in Africa, is one of the greatest oddities of the tree species.
Last Sentence: One authority considers the baobabs to be the "oldest living organic monument on our planet," setting down the ages of several of those which he personally examined as not less than five thousand years.

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