The Press., 1895-09-05
fsoME NOTABLE TREES.

What Is probably the oldest historic tree in New York still stands in Yonkers. Its trunk measures twenty three feet, six inches fin circumference. Topless, it is yet fully as tall as the tallest surrounding trees, and hollow, of course, being chest nut and fully five hundred years old. Some ten feet from the ground there Is great hole--large enough to permit man to crawl into the body of the tree.
 Washington is said to have hidden there when hard pressed by his enemies; he is also said to have passed night under it's branches duriug the time when his head quarters were in Harlem, and he had to oversee the fortifying of Westchester county. Washington spent night in 80 many different places, however, that one hesltates to count them less the historian should prove less true than his subject.
 The old chestnut has other legendary claims to fame. Indian chieftains are supposed to have held momentous pow VOWS under it's shade, and 1t was tied to this tree, with their faces towards the setting sun, that their captives were tor tured and burned.
 The stump of the oldest known specl- m cn of the Rhode Island greening is still standing in the vicinity of Providence. Not far off is a tree of the same species which last year bore ten bushels of apples. The latter tree Is the result of planting a limb which was broken off from the origi- nal tree during terrible September gale in 1915. The older stump dates from 1748.
 At his own request, the grave of James G. Blaine stands unmarked in Oak Hill cemetery, Georgetown District of Col ,umbia. Unmarked by stone, 1 mean, for over the tomb stands a hickory tree, which was on the lot when MT. Blaine purchased it. This tree had once been struck by lightning, but had weathered the blast and bade fair to Outlive it's neighbors. MT. Blaine asked that this tree might never be destroyed, and that he might be buried beneath it.
 Washington City contains more trees which should be famous than any other city in the world. Some one who has counted them says that more than seven- ty thousand trees flourish in the streets and squares of the capital. There a1e, perhaps, eight hundred different species in the collection, and fully score of these trees were planted by eminent men, be- ginning with George Washington and end ing with Benjamin Harrison.
 The tree planted by the father of his country was an American elm. It stands in the north side of the east park facing the senate side of the capitol, The Cam eron tree, another stately elm, stands a l little to the south of the house entrance. Senator Simon Cameron made the speech in 1878 which compelled the landscape gardeners to spare that tree. The famous beech, for which Charles Sumner pleaded so vigorously and successfully, died few | years after its protector. A hillock on the greensward marks the spot where it stood. This tree was probably the most famous in the country after Connecticut's Charter Oak and the apple tree of Appo- mattox.
 In 1862 Thaddeus Stevens planted a planetree in the botanical gardens. The Potomac ran wild in 1870, and to save the tree from destruction, the beau tiful planetree was carried bodily to Lin coin Park where it now stands, seventy feet in height, it's lower branches sweep |, in0 the ground. .-- Kate FieLrs Washington