New-York tribune., 1903-07-26

service eighteen years. and who advised me to
make the trip.
L fortunate having F. w. Hatch, an old
resident, take in his carriage over the farm.
We drove first TO the summer residence of Porter
Wright. which is within about mile of the Web
ster home. We found him at a neighbor's near
by, and he cheerfully accompanied guide
during about two hours that were spent In driving
and about the Webster farm. 1t will be
membered that many of Mr.. Webster's letters, in
the two volumes of his private letters were ad-
dressed to Porter Wright the mana cement Of
the farm. Mr.. Wright is eighty years of age
fairly active, almost of Mr.. Webster's
stature, with prominent nose, expressive blush
gray eyes. and fine looking. He is the man who
Mr.. Websters request drove the up in
front of the house for Mr. Webster, in his last i'll
Daniel Webster,s Marshheld farm finally com
prised seventeen hundred acres of fairly good soil
free from rocks. and about half of it undulating
soil and being on the "beak" shore of the sea
There are views from it Of the blue sea, and of
Old PIymoutn colony settlement DuX5ury and the
Stand;sh monument are visible. Winsow was
eSff1tio1s are too ola to be decipbered and where
also is the extremely plain tomb of Webster-earth
covered and a simple marble slab.
ever look at the fine trees in the apple orchard of
eleven acres which Mr. Webster planted; also the
acres of pleasantly unduat !g surface. a hand
public road through it to the house iIr Webster's
house vas burned a few years ago. and has been
hundred Yards and trees, mostly hardwood are
distributed so tastefully over It to make to-
gether with the little lake of about three acres
along the rear. a princely surrounding. The trees
are now in their prime, and the lawn is far more
beautiful than IL could have been fifty years ago,
IN Mr.. Webster's time. There are few finer lawns,
probably. in America.
Mr. Webster began tree planting on this farm
SlXtN-eight years ago. He planted a great many
small white pines on the north and west sides Of
his farm in lines belts Many of these pines now
stand and are Of merchantab be size, although the
most Of them are not more than a foot in diam
eEer breast high. l noticed a few Scotch pines
Iaere are oc7aS Onal Stunps and OF the pines
tnat he planted were cut and used for timber when
they had a diameter Of two feet. There are now
growing on the farm one or more moderate tracts
high the natural growth from seed OF pines painted
ey Mr. WEBSTER, q fact NeTy significant in forestry
In letter written by him Mavshfeld on Nav
% 1872. TO Mrs. Edward Curtis, crib ng place
he states that there was then the north and
northwest thick belt of trees planted by same
hand that now indltes this description" These
certainly were pines, of which are now stand
ing; and whether they planted to beautify the
place Mr.. Wright thinks or for shelter belts
or for timber, they have had useful forestry ef-
fects, because the trees served wind breaks
and became valuable for timber. Mr.. Webs er
certainly eXemplifed valuable principles of for
estTy, and his example should everywhere give it
a impulse
Some of the trees which he planted he named for
his children. His children are no more. but the
trees are standing. Surely he brought with him
his love OF trees and his stimulus for planting
from his native valley of the MerrimaCk. In his
boyhood he felt the sublimity Of primeval forest
Nowhere has the white pine-the most Valua BILE OF
rees-fourished better than in his own native val