THE HISTORIC TREES OF MASSACHUSETTS 



girth stretching out thirty feet on every side; 

 its trunk ten feet in girth at the smallest 

 part and fourteen and a half feet at the 

 ground; and he must envy those fortunate 

 residents of Cape Cod who boast that they 

 played under this "umbrella tree" when 

 children and climbed in its branches. It 

 stands on the estate of Mr. Livermore of 

 Marshfield Hills and is known to be more 

 than one hundred years old, having been 

 planted by Stephen Sherman who was a 

 resident of Marshfield for nearly ninety years. 

 At this point the author feels that his book 

 may properly be called completed, and the 

 time for the final word is at hand. It is 

 this many efforts, both organized and 

 individual, have been made during recent 

 years toward the preservation of all manner 

 of things historic. No effort of any wide 

 scope has yet been made toward the per- 

 petuation of those living monuments which 

 Nature has erected to our past and present 

 history, the famous trees. Therefore, since 

 most books either begin with an object, or, 

 ending, point a moral, be it the purpose of 



