Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-03-15
TREES FOR HALL OF FAME
Lowell, Lincoln and Carson Trees
Added to The Lists. 2: :'H> ~ 8

Lowell, Lincoln and Carson .iTrees'
Added to The Lists. i:'n2 az! ~
Dedication in Washington recently,
by the celebrated horse chestnut tree
to its place in the tree hall of fame
created by, the American Forestry as
sociation brings out a hitherto un-
published letter BY James Russell
Lowell, the poet, whose. natal day is;
the same as General s>Washtngton's:.'
j The tree was taken from Mount
Vernon by Washington and sent to
one one Of his aides ;in:&the Revolutionary
war, General Brown who planted 1t
ON the lawn before his home here. -
Asa X. .McIlhaneyT Of Bath, snomi-
mated the celebrated %old; tree for the
hall Of fame. : It is 27 feet and a half
in circumference at the. base and 6
feet from the ground 1t has a girtf of
II feet. =.
Nominating the tree MIR. .McIllhan-
ney sent in the letter from Lowell.
written thirty years ago, just four
months before the noted poet died.
It expresses his sympathy. with the
celebration of Arbor day and his love.
Of nature. It was written on the oc-
casion Of the planting OF a tree for
Lowell, by the school children of Bath
on his birthday, February, 1891 Nand
follows: 10. -, .l.,.-4
"T sympathize warmly with the
gracious object for the furthehnce
of which Arbor day was instituted. I
have planted many trees, and every
summer they repay me with an abun-
dant gratitude. There is not; a leaf
on: them but whispers, benediction. I
often think of the Scottish: farmers.
words: quoted by: Scott: ''Baye stickin'
in tree;"J Jook,. twill be'growin' while
we're sleepin',' In my childhood ! put
a nut into the earth from which. ..sprans
Ia horse chestnut tree whose trunk has
now. girth of s feet, and sustains
vast dome, of verdure, the haunt of
birds and bees and Of thoughts as
CHEEKY as they. In planting q tree
we lay the foundation of a structure
of which the seasons without care Of
ours): shall be the builders and which
shall be. Joy to others when we are
gone.
II need not say how great a pleas
ure it is to me that. young friends
should decorate my memory with a
tree of their planting. I wish 1 could
be with them to throw the first SHOW
elful of earth upon its roots"
Another tree recently given a place
in the hall of fame is the Lincoln tree,
at Augusta, Me. It was a tiny shoot
when placed on April Is, 1865, the day
Lincoln died, by Mrs. Reuben Part
ridge, who had her sons, Charles;
Frank and Allen help her place the
memorial maple. Mrs. Partridge Is
still living and as far as known plant
ed the only memorial tree to Lincoln:
on the day he died.
To mark. the seventy-seventh an
niversary Of the discovery Of Lake:
Tahoe by Colonel Fremont. February
20, 1914, the Kit Carson tree, on which
the scout had carved his name, has
been given a place III the hall Of fame.
The nomination was made by F. N.
Fletcher, of Carson City, New, who
sent a sketch of the trees location
made by Mr.. ,Preuss, the artist who
accompanied the Fremont expedition
that left Kansas City May 1S43. It.
was on that trip Fremont discovered
the beautiful lake The old Fremont
oak at Almeda, Cal, under which Ere
mont camped has been nominated for
place in the hall of fame