Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-23
Price Three Cents

refresh his heart with the sensation that these are the seats of the simple domestic virtues and unalloyed home joys of our original New England people who "go to meetin'" every Sunday and thank the Lord every day through the week.
 The most grotesque, rugged tree of our town is an aged oak, which stands on gras- sy knoll on the northeast corner of the home lot of Richard NJ. Everit on Whitney ave- nue. A large oak stood few rods south easterly from 1t named King Philip, who was the sachem of Pocanoket and killed at Mount Hope, Rhode Island, in 1876. That tree died years ago but this named Annawon, from King Philips chief captain, is likely to live for centuries. It is true it has in it two holes, decayed places; but the Charter Oak at the time of the secretion of the charter had hole in it large enough to hide child yet the tree lived after it nearly two centu- rias. We once had two dogs named respeo- lively Tip and Queen. We liked both equal ly well, Tip because he was so handsome and Queen because she was so ugly. So with this tree after having gazed so much at bsautiss for it is SO uncouth broad shouI- dered, strong and mighty that we were en- raptured at the first sight. It's roots go down deep, straight into the earth after the manner of other oaks and not horizontally spreading and sprawling near the surface like many other trees and people. It is 90 strongly anchored that 1t would laugh st 6 whirlwind. Nothing but the axe of the woodman or Father Time can cope with him, and the latter only with good back hold of centuries and after mighty tustle could fetch him."
 At the ground Annawon measures around IT feet at three feet, IA feet less inches, and at five feet, 15 feet. Then to the east and west 1t sends out two giant arms with enormous massive shoulders. These project nearly at right angles to the main body, and III grand old oak. The two holes we have spoken of are well up the tree, are round, about foot in diameter, and having been covered with canvas as 8 protection remind one of drumhesd. Both have been perfo- rated by squirrels for nests and last spring @ family of squirrels were born and raised there, the fate of which we wish we could know. This oak upon our upper Green would be almost priceless.
 We now pay our respects to ''the Ten Sis- ters." Such is the name given to 8 clump of chestnut trees that stand on Prospect hill about six rods south of the Yale Observs- tory building, and which sprung from the roots of a defunct parent. Where their feet touch the ground the cluster measures around about thirty feet. Each vary in girth from to 53 feet They run up about sixty feet. Each sister bows slightly outward to the horizon, the whole, with their flowing head-gear, forming dense
 
 ters have 8 magnificent view of West Rock in profile with it's continuous range running miles away and finally melting to the vision in the far north. In the opposite direction, only mile distant, the bold, hard, red face of East Rock squarely fronts and frowns upon them and their friends, the star gazers of the observatory.
 North of the Ten Sisters upon the Observa- tory grounds is similar cluster named the Five Sisters, equally vigorous and comely. We can but wish that part of these grounds should be left in their original wildness of nature of woods and tangled growth of vines and underbrush. When all that region Is brought under the art of the landscape gar dener, as it soon will be, such spot in it's midst will be highly attractive to the lovers of the picturesque. Furthermore we express the hope that East Rock Park may largely be left In charge of nature.
 few hundred feet from the east end of Tomlinson's bridge in front of Mrs. Mills, is large elm which, it is said, measures around at six feet, 19 feet and 4 inches, but as & whole the tree, although notable, is not as large Rs some in the city.
 We now open up with the Umbrella elm." This tree is not large but, as its name implies, is shaped exactly like an umbrella opened and standing upon long handle. It is on the corner of Hill and Silver streets in ex- cellent view from the Derby depot and is greatly admired for it's perfect symmetry.
 Our notice of Jerry filling, the Milton of Hamden Plains who planted "Ben Franklin" the big elm by the town pump, April II, 179O, the day Franklin died, appears to have many old citizens. who remember his poetry on the occasion of the great fire on Long wharf in 1921. Several have since quoted to us from it, showing it was genuine poetry, had In it the divine spark, or else in the lapse of sixty years it would, we think, have been extinguished. We derive from one of them this verse with which to round out our chapter:
 The wharf was four rods wide
 The fire did rage from side to side,
 And had the wharf been any wider
 The fire would have ragged side sder "cider).