THE HISTORIC TREES 

 OF MASSACHUSETTS 



CHAPTER I 

 THE TREES OF BOSTON COMMON 



Deep and wide 



The wheels of progress have passed on; 

 The silent pioneer is gone, 

 His ghost is moving down the trees, 

 And now we push the memories 

 Of bluff, bold men who dared and died 

 In foremost battle, quite aside. 



Joaquln Miller 



THE Duke of Wellington said, 'Water- 

 loo was won on Eton's playgrounds!' 

 And boys who have coasted on the 

 long malls of Boston Common, played upon 

 its ball-grounds, and received inspiration from 

 orations of great statesmen, and from the 

 frequent military parades there have after- 

 ward stormed many heights in the military- 

 service of their country. Many a hero of our 

 navy has sailed his first boat in the 'frog 

 pond.'" 



CO 



