THE HISTORIC TREES OF MASSACHUSETTS 



in spite of its great size and age. Dr. Holmes 

 has not described it as one of his "tree 

 wives," nor "gilded with a rhyme its house- 

 hold name," but it remains as a heritage 

 to us, like his portrait of Dorothy Q., 



"And lives untroubled by woes and fears 

 Through a second youth of a hundred years/* 



