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will be. A failure to warm up sufficiently in summer, when trees theoreti-
cally should have the best season to grow, has a larger effect.

LARGEST TREES IN MAINE

SPECIES CIRCUMFERENCE HEIGHT TOWN

Ash South Waterford

19 ' -1 ” 81 '

Aspen Bridgton

17 ' -11 ” 70 '

Balsam fir

6 ' -1 ” 104 '

Albion

Basswood Phippsburg

13 ' -11 ” 97 '

Beech Rockport

16 ' -2 ” 72 '

Black oak New Gloucester

6 ' -11 ” 73 '

Chestnut Orono

7 ' -3 ” 44 '

Elm

19 ' -0 ” 115 '

Yarmouth

Gray birch Unity

2 ' -8 ” 53 '

Hemlock TWP 37MD*

14 ' -4 ” 100 '

Hickory Kittery

9 ' -4 ” 66 '

Hornbeam Gray

2 ' -4 ” 21 '

Horse chestnut

7 ' -3 ” 44 '

Orono

Jack pine T1 R9 Wels*

9 ' -0 ” 25 '

Larch Solon

6 ' -4 ” 107 '

Red maple Westbrook

12 ' -10 ” 55 '

Red oak Vienna

21 ' -4 ” 80 '

Red pine

7 ' -4 ” 96 '

Weld

Red spruce Clifton

9 ' -5 ” 102 '

Sugar maple Palermo

17 ' -9 ” 80 '

Walnut Camden

13 ' -0 ” 80 '

White cedar Appleton

4 ' -2 ” 47 '

White oak

19 ' -11 ” 64 '

Pittston

White pine Morrill

19 ' -1 ” 132 '

White spruce Troy

8 ' -7 ” 83 '

Willow Troy

15 ' -6 ” 56 '

Yellow birch Deer Isle

21 ' -0 ” 76 '

Source: Maine Dept. of Conservation. * See page 50 for explanation of road designations.