The John Good way Sycamore 



Just outside of Linglestown, Dauphin County, Penn., stands a 

 sycamore pronounced by the Department of Forestry to be the largest 

 in the State. The tree is associated with John Goodway; the last of 

 the friendly Indians in the region about Harrisburg and has been left 

 standing as a memorial to him. Its circumference is twenty-five feet 

 and its diameter is over seven feet. 



A Sycamore That Owns Itself 



Through the kindness of admiring friends, a large sycamore of 

 Pippapass, Knott County, Ky., has received a gift of land sufficient 

 to protect it from interference as long as it shall live. While the 

 tree's exact age is not known, it must be estimated at many years, the 

 trunk measuring nine feet in circumference at a height of four feet 

 from the ground. It shades a home known as "the house of the 

 sycamore tree," in the Caney Creek Community Centre, and has been 

 christened the "Freed-Budd Tree," probably in compliment to two of 

 its well wishers. 



The deed of conveyance filed in Knott County, on August 20, 

 1918, reads as follows: 



"For, and in consideration of its shade, coolness and inspiration, 

 and in value of itself as an aesthetic asset, the parties of the first part 

 hereby convey to the party of the second part in trust for the use and 

 benefit of the said sycamore tree, and to ITSELF as absolute owner, 

 the said tree, and the said terra-firma, the ground upon which it stands, 

 is to belong to ITSELF, and is hereby conveyed in the same manner 

 as the said tree is conveyed, in consideration of the value of itself, as 

 a resting place for the weary under the shade of said tree, and the 

 said tree and the said terra-firma are to belong to themselves absolutely 

 and to each other for all the purposes which Nature and God intended 

 them, among which is the purpose of the soil to nurture and feed the 

 tree, and that of the tree to shade, grace and beautify the said terra- 

 firma." Thirty-six square feet is the extent of the land owned by the 

 sycamore. 



Herein is contained a happy suggestion for all tree-lovers. 



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