The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-10-17

toWn-the most notable tree that grew
within the borders of Carolina Pro-
vince Or that now grows Wltnln tne
limits of the Old North State! Yet
it is a famous tree; It's span OF lie
covers the history of the country
and links the present to the past.
Every nation preserves it's historic
trees; they are held to be sacred In
their associations. Our cypress tree
will not suffer by comparison II a
few of these famous trees are men
toned.
In Vienna's most crowded street a
curious object is to be seen; 1t is the
famous Stock i'm Eisen, the iron
stick. 1t is the one surviving trunk
Of the ancient Weiner Valid, the for
asts that once covered the banks OF
The Danube. In the days Of super
gtitiOn every one who drove a nan
into this tree was believed to receive
3 spiritual shield against the deVll,
evidently a much felt want, for the
old trunk long ago became a mass OF
iron that bids fair to last forever
The yew tree in Stoke Pogis
church yard in England, under
which the poet Gray wrote his i'm
mortal Elegy is shown to visitors. 1t
shades the doorway to the ancient
and beautiful edifice in which Wor-
shipped the f~orebears Of William
Honn. LII the OlO ULlNtA olty LOVA -
Oxford is Bishop Heber's" tree. It
grows in Exeter College yard and
mad a window Of a room in All
Souls College once occupied by the
author Of From Greenland's Icy
Mountains and this makes the tree
an object of interest and the preser-
walton Of a leaf the duty Of every
tourist. Eight miles north of Oxford
is Palace. On a portion
IF itS wide domain stands q forest a
memorial of the battle Of Blenheim,
for when the trees were young n
set out as saplinSs they accurately
marked a diagram Of the field in
Germany where the first Duke and
Prince Eugene overthrow the French
in a disastrous fight. The long line
Of trees indicated the relative posi-
tions of the hostile posts on that
August morn in 1904.
On the grave Of France and dead
~ Waterloo" the orchard around
the Chateau Hougomont marks the
bloody ground where the Coldstream
Guards of England held the French
in check all day. Hugo says much
of this sad spot and it's frightful
memories, it being we'll filled to the
brink with corpses and yet living
Bodies and Of the mournful plain
around where last the eagle flew
America mourned the loss Of the
Charter Oak when in 1856 a violent
storm blew it down. 1T was estimated
to be one thousand years old, and
in it's old age held within it's hollow
trunk the document Of liberty Of
Connecticut Colony when Sir Ed
mond Andres usurped power in the
province. For two years It guarded
its secret until, the danger passed,
the document was brought to light.
Bits of it's oak wood are treasured
throughout the land today.
The grand Washington Elm stands
close to the walls of Harvard Uni
versity in the streets OF Cambridge,
and beneath it's wide spreading
boughs is a marble tablet r%eciting
that under the elm tree General
Washington took command of the
American Army July 8, 1775.
There is the apple tree at Apo
mattox Court House, momentous il
the last days Of the Confederacy
Whether the illustrious Lee and the
t~ireless Grant stood beneath its
limbs is hard to say, but it has gone
down in story nevertheless. Those
who heard Will not forget that wher
Conkling sprang to the rostrum tt
the Presidency and began his specf
with the words:
When asked what State he hail:
from,
Our sole reply shall be,
He halls from AppomatoX
And its famous apple rec
Wilmington, in this State, exhibit:
to the reverent stranger it's wei
known Dram tree. If it is not famou:
it is at least notorious. It stands GU
among the reeds in the Cape Fea1
River at a Point about a mile below
the city. It is a cypress. Thre.
times it has fallen beneath the ak.
only to spring up again in vigorous
growth, and, like the belfrv O
Bruges. thrice consumed and thric,
rebuilded, still it Waches Ger tn
town. For generations it has mark
ed the place for those who go dow
to h sea in ships to wish eacl
other a bon voyage, and for the re
turning sailor to celebrate the HON
arrival with a DRAM. Its one redem
ing feature is that no one has at