UNITED STATES 

 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION No. 295 



Washington, D. C. 



Issued June 1938 



Slightly revised August 1939 



FAMOUS TREES 



By Charles E. Randall and D. Priscilla Edgerton, Division of Information 

 and Education, Forest Service 



CONTENTS 



Page 

 Trees associated with notable persons, events, 



and places. 1 



Trees associated with notable people : 2 



Trees associated with the building of the 



Nation 16 



Trees associated directly with educators 



or educational institutions. 43 



Trees associated particularly with writers 



and literature 47 



Trees associated with religion 50 



Trees that have had special protection 55 



Trees associated with notable persons, events, 

 and places— Continued. 



Trees with peculiar aesthetic or senti- 

 mental associations 59 



Heads of tree families. _ 62 



Trees notable for unusual size or age 66 



Old or large trees in the United States 66 



Outstanding foreign rivals lol 



Freak trees 102 



Literature cited 111 



TREES ASSOCIATED WITH NOTABLE PERSONS, EVENTS, AND PLACES 



EVERY land, every clime, has its trees, and in the lore of every age 

 tree stories are found. 



In the United States there is abundant tree growth of the most use- 

 ful species. The Nation has been quite literally nurtured in a wooden 

 cradle, and its progress has been largely due to the contributions of 

 the forest. The pioneers cut paths through the wilderness — from east 

 to west and from north to south — and the forest harvest has gone 

 into home and community building. 



On all sides there is abundant evidence that forests are essential 

 to civilized man's welfare. The individual tree, however, has an even 

 more intimate part to play in human experience, a part so universal 

 that every country has its famous tree citizens. 



Trees by their very nature are landmarks and memorials. They are 

 therefore identified with human happenings. Also, trees, having 

 more than the allotted life span of man, carry their associations 

 through generations of men and women. Thus they often figure not 

 only in biography but also in history. 



Trees are loved by all kinds of people. Therefore they are immor- 

 talized by poets and artists, and their historical associations are 

 perpetuated by churches and schools, by various organizations and 

 communities. 



Several hundred descriptions of, or incidents about trees, taken from 

 reports coming to the Forest Service and from records and library 



165233°— 39 1 1 



