FAMOUS TREES 



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in the region about Harrisburg. (See Trees notable for unusual size 

 or age, p. 93.) 



Tradition has it that a grove of giant hemlocks at Stenton, Ger- 

 mantown, once the country place of James Logan, William Penn's 

 secretary, was planted by Penn himself. This tradition has not been 

 authenticated, but the trees are very old (82). 



Davy Crockett Tree, an ancient oak at Crockett, under which Davy 

 Crockett is said to have camped during his journey from the States 

 to assist Texas in its struggle for freedom from Mexican rule. Not 

 long after he camped there he met death in the historic battle of the 

 Alamo. 



Figure 9. — Nut Trees Planted at the Grave of Governor Hogg, in Austin, 

 Tex., in Compliance With His Deathbed Request That Such a Monument 

 Rather Than One of stone Be Erected to Him. (Courtesy of C. A. Reed, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry.) 



The Governor Hogg Pecan (fig. 9). The governor's last wish was 

 that * 4 no monument of stone or marble 1 ' be placed at his grave, but 

 instead that there be planted — 



at my head a pecan tree and at my feet an old fashioned walnut ; and when 

 these trees shall hear, let the pecans and walnuts be given out among the plains 

 people of Texas so that they may plant them and make Texas a land of trees. 



His wish is being carried out. The first nuts were saved in 1926 

 and planted at College Station. Each year since, the nuts have been 

 gathered and planted in nursery rows. As soon as the young trees 

 become large enough to transplant, they are dug up and distributed, 

 one each, first to county high schools, next to other high schools, and 

 last to county boards for planting on courthouse lawns. 



The Sam Houston Pecan Tree. Under this famous tree, standing 

 in the well-kept yard of Sam Houston's old home at Huntsville. 



