The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-03
Historical Trees of America
---By FREDERIC J. HASKIN ---

original colonies. Near Ono Hundred
and Fifty ninth street thcrc are eaii
to be some of the famous cypress
trees Of the old Jumel estate still stand
lng, they having been a present TO
Mr.. Jumel from Napoleon, who
Drought them from Egypt. The growth
or the metropolis has spared the oms
IN the yard of the Little church
Around the Corner.
New Haven has been known for
many generations as the City of Elms,
the first having been brought there
from Hampdcn by William Cooper
and gwen to the Reverend Pierpont
On the green stands an elm known
as tho Franklin elm, having been
bought by Thaddcus Beechcr from
one Jerry Allen for ga pint of rum
and some trifles, - and planted on the
day that Franklin died. For many long
years r mulberry tree stood TO mark
the place where the Calverts and
the Indians made the treaty that gave
Maryland to the Catholics. but IL fell
over hfty years ago. Church furniture
was made of it for use in the ancient
town of st. Mary g. and the Bishop of
Maryland has gavel made from a
bit of 1T, The strength of tree is al
most Incredible. Az jamestown a
sycamore grew mp between the graves
carried onethlrd of Mrs. Blair g tomb
three feet above the surface. hold
ing IL fast in n roIch. while the roots
and the body of the tree shattered into
tiny mites the iron-slate slab that
marked the commissary's tomb.
On the eastern horderaud of Ten
nessce, far up IN the mountains. there
stood for MANY wears a tree bearing
the legenr: Cd Boon killed Bar on
this tree year 1160.' IT was a rough
record of the prowcss of a twenty.siX
year old hunter, and was n familiar
landmark TO travellers and hunters for
many years. Further inland. near the
Lick, an old hollow tree stood for
many years. Over one hundred years
ago man named Spencer spent the
winter in it, His house was not so
pretcntious as that of the California
settler who, having neither time nor
money to build. found hollow red
wood, and Immediately converted it
living downstairs and bedroom
above, and lived there several years
with his family Not far away from
him stood the largest tree in the world,
the Abraham Lincoln, once called the |
Hermit measuring eighteen feet in
diameter and $50 feet in height
The live oaks Of California are Il
feature in themselves, the largest one, |
ten feet in diameter. being |
in Tulare county, Those on the campus
Of tho university grounds at Berkeley !
are especially noted for their beauty, |
and also attract attention from the |
fact that some of them exomplify
methods of tree-salyation and protec
ion Where decay has set in the
foresters have carefully cut out the
diseased spots in the same way that
lentists treat teeth, putting in a
illing of cement to prevent further de-
,ay. Further down the coast, in Santa
Barbara county. is the largest grape
Linc IN the world. II is called La
Para Grande, and was planted sixty
hree years ago by Joaquin Lugodi
ayala, q Spanish woman. The trunk
If the vine measures nine inches in cir
Though pruned every |
year, its branches cover a quarter of an
icre, and it takes sixty large posts 10
hold up the trellis on which ii !
spreads. The present owner, Jacob |
Wilson, has been offered $4,000 for it,
he would be purchasers meaning TO
move it to worlds fairs. In the old
mission yard at Santa Barbara is a
pepper tree, under which the maids of
Queen Victoria g daughter daily pre-
pared her tea during the winter she
spent in California.
A once-noted tree Of the Middle West
vas the Miami apple tree that stood
It the junction OF the ST. Mary and
st. Joseph rivers. IT must have sprung
rom seed dropped by a French p1iest
,r trader long ago. In wigwam an
Ter this tree the Miami chief, Wild
'at, was born. Other apple trees were
ound down the valleys by the first ser
lers, though they were not of a kind
Indigenous to the soil, Many be-