CHAPTER XXV 

 OTHER WELL-KNOWN TREES 



Father, thy hand 



Hath reared these venerable columns, thou 

 Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down 

 Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith rose 

 All these fair ranks of trees. 



Bryant 



AMONG the largest and most beauti- 

 ful trees in all Massachusetts are 

 those noble old monarchs of the 

 forest which, by reason of sheer excellence 

 alone, have established for themselves a 

 permanent place in the list of truly great 

 trees. They need no specific event to render 

 them historic; they are in themselves his- 

 toric by reason of their age, size and refining 

 influence upon mankind. 



A book written entirely in the spirit of 

 this suggestion might well include every 

 extraordinary specimen of tree in the Com- 

 monwealth. The present volume was, how- 

 ever, originally intended to include only 



