THE HISTORIC TREES OF MASSACHUSETTS 



"historic trees" in the established sense of 

 the term, and for this reason a separate 

 chapter is added here, in which the "un- 

 heralded and unsung" may have a place, 

 through the medium of their worthy repre- 

 sentatives. 



Berkshire County 



The preceding chapter, dealing with the 

 Oliver Wendell Holmes Pine, left the reader 

 in the far end of the state, after an imagi- 

 nary trip from sea-level west. It now remains 

 for us to journey back hastily, admiring an 

 individual tree in one place, a group in 

 another, and to those that must of necessity 

 be left behind, be this the parting word 



O, flourish, hidden deep in fern, 

 Old oak, I love thee well! 

 A thousand thanks for what I learn 

 And what remains to tell. 



There is a stately old elm on the back road 

 to Stockbridge, a few miles out of Lenox. 

 This tree is i6J feet in circumference, 97 

 feet in height and 87 feet in spread. Tra- 

 dition credits it with having sheltered with 

 its branches a meeting of Revolutionary 

 generals about 1776, but there seems to be no 



