THE HISTORIC TREES OF MASSACHUSETTS 



Savoy, growing on a rocking boulder; it is 

 five feet high, and an old resident, born near 

 by and living there until recently, told me he 

 remembered it as a boy as being the same in 

 appearance over fifty years ago. The boulder 

 I measured and estimated the weight to be 

 twenty-nine tons, yet it is so nicely poised 

 that I could rock it with the pressure of one 

 finger. The tree grows in a fissure and has no 

 connection with the earth, and my impression 

 is that it must sufFer from dry w^eather and 

 cold in winter; no wonder that it does not 

 grow — the wonder is that it lives." 



Hampde7i County 



We descend to the region of Springfield, 

 where most of the big trees have already 

 been sought out and described in the pre- 

 ceding chapters, and we pass on to the 

 towns about Wilbraham. Here a whole day 

 might be spent in going from one to another 

 of the aged landmarks. A fist submitted 

 by Henry I. Edson, forest warden at North 

 Wilbraham, includes no less than a score 

 of super-trees. The most beautiful of all 



