Measuring Tree Girth

We visited these ancient olives at
Mission San Jose during the Olive Festival 2017.
I will need to compare
with those old ones
at the California Nursery Historical Park.
But I think this one is bigger by far.

Tree girth is measured at breast height. Also lets you give them a good hug!

I'd say this one is about 10 feet in circumference.
























Charles Howard Shinn wrote about olives behind the mission.

Many of the olive trees today appear to be on this map from 1868 when overlaid onto google earth.