Show SHOOT FROM HE TI83URY YEW Interacting Relic Secured by a Boston I I Clergyman II When Dr Charles H Danks wnc in England six years ago and visited Tlsbury ho saw In tho oM churchyard of that parish tho famous yew treo which Is said to hard been planted by ono of tho Arundcl family seven hundred hun-dred or moro years ago It Is about thirtysix feet in clrcumferanco hollowed I hol-lowed at tho trunk rnd capablo of holding about ten person In the cavity cav-ity Tho vicar promised tho doctor a shoot from the tree as soon as ono could be procurred Recently tho doctor doc-tor received by expresT a young treo from tho old giant and it is now potted pot-ted and ready for transplantation at the proper time When It becomes acclimated ac-climated this memorial of tho old Tis bury will find a home In the new town on the lawn of Dr Banks summer homo at Vineyard Haven Tho yew la a largo and beautiful evergreen tree with a trunk often of great thickness branching a few feet above tho ground and forming n large and dense head Kino specimens of it arc frequently found in English churchyards church-yards and for this reason It has been often mentioned In tho elegiac poems of English authors The yew tree obtained by Dr Banks will havo a deep significance and interest In-terest for the Vineyard people not only because it came from old Tis bury but also for the reason that under un-der the spreading branches of tho parent treo Thomas Mayhew known to fame as Gov May hew must havo been carried to his baptism over throo hundred years ago Boston Transcript Tran-script |