Show X 14 KE A i 7 f t r 31 I 1 adolv cna af by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN khos HOS who la in the trees an interesting proposition V V it for surely there Is a chos who of the trees just as th there ere Is one of men and women for one thing they are quite as individual as men and women again like men some are born borm great grea t others achieve great iless and others have greatness thrust upon them A notion nation which has no memory of its departed great Is in a bd bad way so also Is that nation which las has no DO thought of its historic landmarks and how often Is that historic landmark a treel tree anyway the li american merican forestry association so of washington Is compiling a chos who of trees in america and nd people all over the country 1 are nominating worthwhile worth while nalle trees for a hall of fame for trees the movement Is popular it should be many a tree has bas associations worth preserving for posterity if a tree can be said to be born peat great p eat here Is one it Is the stratford on avon oak in central park new york tork city nominated for the hall of fame by miss viola overman this reeling was sent to alval walter ter nines hines page when iben he ilas ambassador to the court of st james by the mayor of historic stratford it was forwarded to the shakespeare garden committee of central park and planted with appropriate ceremonies of course the finest example of achieved greatness Is the gen sherman sequoia in sequoia national park california it Is the biggest and oldest living thing on earth it Is feet in diameter and 2799 2709 feet high it Is more than years old A tree that has achieved greatness of a different kind Is the carbondale pa elm nominated by E M peck it Is believed bel belleek leed to be the most perfectly proportioned elm tree in the united states A tree that had greatness thrust upon it or at least notoriety was the giant cottonwood that stood in the middle of the street in pueblo colo until it was cut down in IW 1883 its age was waa estimated at years its circumference was 28 feet beneath this tree the first white woman who died in colorado was burled buried thirty six people were nere massacred by indians indiana under it 11 fourteen men were hanged on its branches many of our historic trees are dead mores the pity for the old mulberry tree at st marys md the claim Is made that it was the most famous tree in the colonies the claim will be disputed by many particularly by the friends of the great trees on boston common which saw so go much history written both trees tell fell in 1860 1870 one hundred years after the declaration of independence all the history of maryland aryland Bl Is written around the old mulberry for it was there lord calvert landed and it was wag for years the site bite of the calit capital tal of maryland the old mulberry tree Is 1 nominated by mrs mra delia harris maddox who bo has written a poem about the famous tree of the historic boston common it ban ha been written probably no other spot in the united states has seen so BO many thousands of men recruited for military service or so many millions of dollars contributed for the cause of human liberty none one of the trees on tile the common today Is of primeval origins origin all have been planted and range between one hundred and c FAA XA 0 I 1 ji ue two hundred years of age the two tao greatest were liberty tree and the great elm the former was destroyed in 1775 and its place Is now marked by a memorial laI table the great elm was the native king of 0 the common and was full grown about 1722 it was destroyed in a gale in 1846 1878 it was only last may that the fa morse elm at the corner of pennsylvania avenue and fourteenth street one of the oldest laddin landmarks arks in the national capital was removed after a long but losing fight for its life which began when fourteenth street was widened this tree had looked down upon every inaugural parade held in washington it was named for samuel F B morse inventor of the telegraph under the lafayette elm at kenne bunk me general lafayette lunched while touring the united states the tree Is nominated by miss bliss ellen darrach of west philadelphia soldiers of bye wars have been drilled beneath the john pemberton oak nominated by mrs 11 II F lewis secretary of virginia tor for the D A it II under this tree col john pemberton mustered his big troops for the battle of kings mountain in 1781 A marker has been placed on the tree by the sycamore shoals chapter the desoto oak at tampa was dominated om by J E worthington of the tampa times it has a spread of feet with a height of 80 feet in 1539 ferdinand desoto was appointed governor of the provinces of florida and cuba and with about 1000 of most wealthy and nd adventurous venturous young men set out for the conquest of the new world the corner oaks oak at the foot of Bl martins arlins mountain at Mar garlinton marlinton linton W va are nominated by andrew price these oaks were marked general andrew lewis october 8 6 1731 1751 gen lewis was wag the hero berci of point pleasant and was as the military trainer and patron of george washington who aho tried to get lewis appointed commander in chief in the revolution devolution other candidates announced as hav ing been given it a place la in the as soc lations records are as follows the battle ground oak marking the battle of guildford N C courthouse court housa in the revolutionary war the sycamore tree shading the headquarters of gen washington at white plains the cornwallis aaron burr oak at charlotte N C the lewis leals cass tree in the city park of eliola raa 0 the mcdonough Donough SIc oak at new orleans named tor for the man whose fortune helped to found the public school systems in new orleans and bait more the crosswicks oak in new jersey marking the site of a revolutionary war hospital and headquarters of the hessian troops the live oak at pomona cal marking the spot where to in the first white settlers camped in pomona valley the white oak that marks th the alt it of the battles on keltha keiths hill in kind KID phillips wars lare and now grafton mass the vaulting pole cottonwood hosea pierce returned from the war of 1812 to his hone home near norris city it was in the spring of 1815 and on january 8 of that year he had bad helped gen jackson whip the british in the battle of new orleans he left a vaulting pole sticking in the soft ground it lived and grew the gen johnston oak on the shiloe battlefield under this tree gen albert A sidney johnston was killed the washington oak near santee S C the san diego mission palm 71 ehlt to la the only one remaining of the four fou planted in 1700 the blunston oak just juat over fbi philadelphia line this tree was mentioned in a deed in 1683 and from beneath neath it in 1777 general washington watched his army march from phila delphia to chadds chadda ford the sassafras tree at harrisburg now years old it was wag 15 years yeam old when john harris jr son of the th man mail who founded the pennsylvania lt capital was born |