50 MISC. PUBLICATION 295, U. S. DEFT. OF AGRICULTURE 



wrote Trees. This area contains some of the most magnificent virgin 

 timber to be found in the United States. Trees 5 and 6 feet in 

 diameter are of common occurrence, and the largest tree measures 

 80 inches across the bole. 



This memorial forest was established by authority of the Secretary 

 of Agriculture and is under the administration of the regional 

 forester of the Forest Serrice. The tract will be maintained as a 

 permanent wildlife refuge. Deer, black bear, and other wild animals, 

 including Russian wild hogs, are to be found here. Headquarters of 

 the Xantahala Forest are at Franklin. N. C. The Joyce Kilmer 

 memorial was sponsored by the Bozeman Bulger Post, Veterans of 

 Foreign Wars, New York City. Joyce Kilmer was killed in action 

 in France, July 30. 1918. 



PEN N S YLVANIA 



Cedarcroft Chestnut, in grounds of home of Bayard Taylor, at 

 Kennett Square, Chester County, is a splendid old chestnut whose 

 shade was a favorite rendevzous of the well-knoAvn author. Sidney 

 Lanier, the poet, a welcome visitor at Taylor's home, was much 

 attached to this old tree and immortalized it in his graceful poem, 

 Under the Cedarcroft Chestnut. 



Margaret Preston Oak. in the family burying ground in Lexington 

 Cemetery, Lexington, last resting place of the "poetess laureate of 

 the South," Margaret Junkin Preston. 



Lonesome Pine, Wise County, made famous by the late John Fox. 

 Jr., in his novel. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. A very large part 

 of Wise County, in southwest Virginia, is in the Jefferson National 

 Forest. 



TREES ASSOCIATED WITH RELIGION 



CALIFORNIA 



Cathedral Oak rides the cliff of South Pasadena's rustic Arroyo 

 Seco Park, and is believed to be at least 600 years old, according to 

 the writings of the valiant Padre Juan Crespi, who was Padre 

 Junipero Serra's right-hand man on his long journey from Mexico 

 to found the missions of Alta, Calif, and who, when the sadly crippled 

 Serra was unable to push onward by land toward Monterey in 1769. 

 accompanied Caspar de Portola and" his party of 66 soldiers, priests, 

 muleteers, and Indians on the first overland trip northward through 

 California. Franciscan padres always walked. Easter morning, 

 1770. found them in camp under the Cathedral Oak. and there they 

 held the first Easter service on California soil. After Mission San 

 Fernando had been established in 1791. the padres, on their journeys 

 by foot from mission to mission, made the Cathedral Oak their over- 

 night shelter, betAveen San Gabriel and San Fernando. At one time 

 a bell hung there to toll the hour of morning mass. 



A Mile of Christmas Trees, Deodar cedars, Pasadena. 



"The Oldest Christmas Tree," (41) General Grant Bigtree, the 

 General Grant National Park (see Trees notable for unusual size or 

 age, pp. 70-71.) 



