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Champion Boxelder

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Acer negundo judged in 1979 to be the largest known example in Wisconsin. The tree is standing on a lawn at Green Gables, part of the ...
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Champion River Birch

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Betula nigra judged in 1963 to be the largest example of the species in Wisconsin. The tree has a low fork with three major branches. ...
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Champion Shagbark Hickory

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Carya ovata judged in 1979 to be the largest example of the species in Wisconsin. The tree stands on the Blackhawk Country Club golf c...
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Champion Ginkgo Tree

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Ginkgo biloba judged to be the largest example of the species in Wisconsin in 1979. It was located at Covenant Harbor Camp at Lake Gen...
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Thornless Common Honeylocust

Date: 1979
Description: A winter view of a specimen of Gleditsia triacanthos inermis, judged to be the largest of its type in Wisconsin. The tree is standing next to the st...
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European Larch

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Larix decidua, judged to be the largest of its type in Wisconsin, standing next to Trinity Episcopal Church.
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Norway Spruce

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Picea abies, judged to be the largest of its type in Wisconsin, standing in Basswood Cemetery. Peony bushes are planted among the head...
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Austrian Pine

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Pinus nigra, judged to be the second largest of its type in Wisconsin, standing beside a house at 302 N. Wisconsin Street. Three young...
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Scots Pine

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Pinus sylvestris, judged to be the largest of its type in Wisconsin, standing in the Cooksville Cemetery. Smaller trees and other flow...
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Eastern Poplar

Date: 1979
Description: An unidentified man, with jacket, hat and gloves, is dwarfed by the forked trunk of a specimen of Populus deltoides, judged in 1976 to be the larges...
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Douglas Fir

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Pseudotsuga menziesii standing tall against a backdrop of shorter deciduous trees on the Green Gables Estate. It was judged to be the ...
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Common Pear

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Pyrus communis, judged to be the second largest of its type in Wisconsin, growing among smaller trees and shrubs at the edge of a cult...
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White Oak

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Quercus alba, judged to be the largest of its species in Wisconsin, standing alone in a pasture on a sunny summer day.
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Basswood

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Tilia americana (Linden), judged in 1975 to be the largest of its species in Wisconsin, standing in a snowy landscape with smaller tre...
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Edward Hasselkus

Date: 1979
Description: Edward Hasselkus, University of Wisconsin professor of horticulture and curator of Longenecker Gardens at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum in Madison ...
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Allison and Hoffmann

Date: 1979
Description: R. Bruce Allison, left, and B. Wolfgang Hoffman posing in front of the massive trunk of a tree. Allison, an arborist, is the author, and Hoffmann the photo...
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Tree

Date: 1979
Description: A cropped view of a tree, looking upward, accentuates the pattern and texture of the bark as the branches extend outward. There is a light dusting of snow ...
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Grant County Sycamore

Date: 1979
Description: A mature sycamore tree standing in front of farm buildings and a silo. There is a mailbox and fire number sign at the edge of a road in the foreground. The...
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Champion White Ash

Date: 1979
Description: A towering white ash, devoid of leaves, standing along the sidewalk in front of a two-story brick Norman revival house with a large chimney. There is a du...
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Walter Koehn

Date: 1979
Description: Wally Koehn (1915-1998) posing with his left forearm resting against the giant trunk of a northern catalpa (Catalpa speciosa) on the Wrigley estate ...

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