THE LINDENS AT PLYMOUTH 



of Cole's Hill has an interesting romance 

 associated with it. The tree was planted 

 by a youthful couple as a memorial of their 

 engagement, and when not long afterwards, 

 in 1809, the engagement was discontinued, 

 and the memorial was no longer prized by 

 the lady in whose garden it had been planted, 

 she one day pulled it up and threw it into 

 the street. My father, who happened to 

 be passing at the time, picked it up and 

 planted it where it now stands. He lived 

 in the house now known as the Plymouth 

 Rock House, where he died in 1824, and 

 under his careful nursing it survived its 

 treatment, and has grown into the beautiful 

 tree, now blessmg so many with its grateful 

 shade. In that house I was born in 1822, 

 and lived until I was more than twenty 

 years of age, and hundreds of times I have 

 climbed the branches of the Linden, often 

 with book in hand, seeking shelter from the 

 summer sun." ^ 



Other trees in Plymouth worthy of men- 

 tion are the elms in the town square, planted 



' Davis, "Memoirs of an Octogenarian," p. 15. 



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