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A (big) tree grows in Brooklyn
Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2009Two trees in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden - a 97-year-old Kansas hawthorn and a Carolina holly - have become official members of the state's Big Tree Register, which keeps track of the largest trees of their species on record, as defined by a formula that includes the height, circumference and foliage of the tree. State registers cooperate with the National Register of Big Trees, which records the largest trees in the country.
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