432 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



Original Penn Treaty Elm. On the Delaware River, at 

 Shackamaxon Street. It measured twenty-four feet around 

 the base, and one branch extending toward the Delaware 

 River w^as 150 feet long. It blew down in March 3, 1810, 

 and by count its age was found to be 283 years. 



Pennsylvania Hospital's Descendant of the Penn Treaty 

 Elm. This tree is found on the grounds of the Hospital. 

 The minutes of the Hospital, dated 3 mo. 26, 1810, state 

 that " A scion from the root of a tree called the Great Elm 

 of Kensington, said to have been the same tree under which 

 William Penn, the proprietor of Pennsylvania, held the 

 first treaty with the Indians, was presented by Matthew 

 Vanduzen, and planted by Peter Brown, Esq., near the 

 centre of the western-most lot belonging to the Hospital, for 

 which Peter Brown is requested to return to Matthew 

 Vanduzen the thanks of the managers and to procure a box 

 to defend it from injury. The parent tree was blown down 

 in a late storm." 



General Oliver's Descendant of the Treaty Elm. A shoot 

 from the roots of the old tree which blew down in 1810 was 

 carried to and planted on the Oliver estate, at Bay Ridge, 

 New York, where it grew for more than fifty years, until it 

 was dug up and removed to Oliver's Mills, on the moun- 

 tains near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania {Forest Leaves, III, 

 pp. 124 and 149, with illustrations).* 



The University of Pennsylvania's Descendant. A shoot 

 from the Oliver tree at Wilkes-Barre was obtained and 

 planted in front of the main college building of the Uni- 

 versity, on Arbor Day, April 10, 1896. 



* Two other descendants are known— one in Cooper Square, Camden ; one in 

 the yard of the Friends' Meeting on Twelfth Street. See an interesting article by- 

 Ethel Austin Shrigley, of Lansdowne {Forest Leaves, VII, p. 42). 



