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Show Miss Atcott's Elms. Among the tres In historic Concord are the two old elms in front of the Louisa May Alcott house, and the little lit-tle grove of pines and spruces just be-.yond be-.yond It. Under the shade of the elms once lived the author of "Little Wotu-n" Wotu-n" and among the whispering pines Hawthorne walked, thought and wrote, or conversed with his friend, Thoreau. The elm at the left of the door as the visitor approaches the old house Is 13 feet In circumference, and the one at the right Is 15. The trees have been nominated for a place in the nail of Fame for Trees being compiled by the American Forestry association of Washington, D. C. |