IS THE TREES OF AMERICA. 



" The old memorial tree is down, 

 But its stirring legend still lives on — 

 A tale of grief and withering woe, 

 Of tears that ceas6d long ago.'' 



Beneath the Queen's Oak Elizabeth heard of the death of Mary, and knew 

 that by this event she had become the ruler of a mighty kingdom. 



From the top of an oak, separated from the fight by the waters of the swollen 

 river, Owen Glendower witnessed the defeat of his friend Harry Hotspur, and 

 the triumph of the tyrant king. We, too, have our historical oaks, as venerable 

 for age as those of other lands, and like them fraught with a people's weal or woe. 



The present noble queen of England, before she ascended the throne, planted 

 with her own hands an oak at Chatsworth. Long may it live and flourish as 

 the Queen's Oak, and tell to ages yet unborn far other tales than those told by 

 the venerable tree which looked down upon the great queen who so long ago 

 swayed the sceptre of the fatherland. 



In our country, where all are bom sovereigns, it is to be hoped that ere long 

 every lady will deem it her duty to imitate England's queen in this, and plant at 

 least one tree. When our ladies shall do this, then will the work be done, and 

 throughout our broad land the reproach of neglect, in this respect, have passed 

 away. This act of Victoria's, it seems to us, is not the least significant in the 

 life of one to whom a people look, not in vain, for a high and noble example. 

 If, as says the North American, the influence of Evelyn is now more felt for 

 good, by the race, than any of the rulers and statesmen of his times, " private 

 gentleman" though he was, may we not hope that many will thus strive to 

 embalm their memories, and build for themselves leafy pyramids, monuments 

 of love and good will, which shall preserve their deeds when the pyramids of 

 Egypt shall have crumbled into dust, and the very names of the tyrants who 

 hoped thus to perpetuate their memories have passed away, and left no trace 

 upon the sands of time 1 



On another page we have alluded to what Mr. Tudor has done at Nahant, 

 and since then we have taken pains to obtain further information upon the 

 subject. It may be as well to remark in this connection, that as our work is 



