THE HISTORIC TREES OF MASSACHUSETTS 



people play and rest and work? Is it not 

 enough that they are beautiful, and that they 

 are unhmited in quantity? 



And yet, as you walk along the old road 

 to Lenox, you will mark in a wide sweep of 

 lawn the lone and superb pine so much 

 loved by Dr. Holmes. "Canoe Meadow" 

 was a carrying place of the Indians, and held 

 everything that he most dehghted in. His 

 house stood on the soil owned by his great- 

 grandfather, Jacob Wendell, Colonel of the 

 Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. 

 Here were half a hundred acres of forest 

 trees, some of them probably five hundred 

 years old; above their fohage the Berk- 

 shire Hills reared their silent heads, and 

 the Housatonic River made its course in 

 a thousand fantastic curves through the 

 meadows. ^ 



Here at last is an historic pine, one of the 

 favorite trees of a noted personage, and an 

 excellent representative of our great New 

 England conifer. 



^ Abbott, "Old Paths and Legends of the New England 

 Border." 



