Show SHOOT THE Y YEW interesting relic secured by boston clergyman when dr charles E banks was in england six years ago and visited tisbury he saw in the old churchyard of that parish the famous yew tree which Is said to have been planted by one of the arundel family seven hun dred or more years ago it Is about thirty six feet in circumference circum ferance hoi lowed at the trunk and capable of holding about ten persons in the caa uy the vicar promised the doctor a dhoot from the tree as soon as one could be recently the doc tor received by espres a young tree from the old giant and it Is now pot ted and ready for transplantation at the proper time when it becomes ac climatee cli mated this memorial of the old bury will find a home in the new town on the lawn of dr banks summer home at vineyard haven the yew 13 a large and beautiful evergreen tree with a trunk often of great thickness branching a few feet above the ground and forming a large and dense head fine specimens of it are frequently found in english church yards and for this reason it has been often mentioned in the elegiac poems of engi sh authors the yew tree obtained by dr banks will hae a deep signify ance and in terest for the vineyard people not only because it came from old bury but also for the reason that un der the spread ng branches of the parent tree thomas mayhew known to fame as go mahew must have been carried to his baptism over three hundred years ago boston tran script |