THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



five feet and a diameter of sixteen inches. 

 Other souvenirs are a horse-chestnut planted by- 

 Minnie Maddern Fiske, a ginkgo by Ahce Free- 

 man Palmer, a beech by Paul van Dyke, a horse- 

 chestnut by Anna Hempstead Branch, another 

 by Sir Sidney Lee, yet another by Mary E. 

 Burt, a catalpa by Madelaine Wynne, a Colo- 

 rado blue spruce — fitly placed after much labor 

 of mind — by Sir Moses Ezekiel, and a Kentucky 

 coffee-tree by Gerald Stanley Lee and Jennette 

 Lee, of our own town. Among these should also 

 stand the maple of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but 

 it was killed in its second winter by an unde- 

 tected mouse at its roots. Except Sir Moses, 

 all the knights here named received the accolade 

 after their tree plantings, but I draw no moral. 

 Would it were practicable to transmit to those 

 who may know these trees in later days the 

 scenes of their setting out and to tell just how 

 the words were said which some of the planters 

 spoke. Mr. Beecher, lover of young trees and 

 young children, straightened up after pressing 

 the soil about the roots with hands as well as 

 feet and said: *'I cannot wish you to live as 



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