STATE P«^»MOLO<rlCAL SOCIETY. 14^ 



And here is another beautiful thing from Whittier : 



*'I have always admired the taste of the Indians around Sebago 

 Lake, who, when their chief died, dug around the beech tree, swaying 

 it down, and placed his body in the rent, and then let the noble tree 

 fall bpck into its original place, a green and beautiful monument for 

 a son of the forest." 



I am found in all parts of Maine and am one of the best known. 



Norway Pine. The famous A. J. Downing said: '-There are 

 no grander or more superb trees than our American oak. We are 

 fully disposed to concede it the first rank among the denizens of the 

 forest. As an ornamental object we consider the oak the most 

 varied in expression, the most beautiful, grand, majestic and 

 picturesque of all deciduous trees." 



Red Oak. Poetry, history, mythology and romance abound in 

 references to the oak. I should like to hear from our fellow trees 

 some common quotations in reference to the oak. 



White Ash. ''The unwedgable and gnarled oak." 



Black Ash. "The old oaken bucket." 



Sugar Maple. "Jove's own tree that holds the woods in awful 

 sovereignty." 



Bed Maple. "A goodly oak, whose boughs were mass'd with age." 



Hemlock. "King of the woods." 



Black Spruce. ''Thy guardian oaks, my country, are thy boast." 



Silver Maple. "The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees." 



White Elm. "The oak for grandeur, strength and noble size, 

 excels all trees that in the forest grow." 



Hornbeam. "Tall oaks from little acorns srow." 



Bass Wood. 



"Woodman, forbear thy stroke ! 

 Cut not its earth-bound ties; 

 Oh, spare that aged oak, 



Now towering to the skies!" 

 White Birch. 



''Behold yon oak, 

 How stern he frowns." 

 Hackmatack. 



"Proud monarch of the forest! 

 That once a sapling bough, 

 Didst quail far more at evening's wrath 



Than at the tempest now, 

 Strange scenes have passed, long ages roU'd 



Since first upon tliy stem, 

 Then weak as osier twig, spring set 

 Her leafy diadem." 



