FAMOUS TREES 13 



Maple planted in memory of Juliette Low. founder of the Girl 

 Scouts of America, at Eighteenth Street and New York Avenue, NW, 

 Washington. D. C. by the Girl Scouts of the District of Columbia. 



J. Sterling Morton Elm, United States Capitol Grounds, planted 

 in memory of the founder of Arbor Day. by Chief Forester R. Y. 

 Stuart, in 1932. Another living memorial to J. Sterling Morton is 

 an elm planted by the Nebraska Society at 1214 Sixteenth Street. NW, 

 Washington. D. C. headquarters of the American Tree Association. 



IOWA 



Buffalo Bill Elm. Near the old river town of LeClaire. in the 

 shade of this tree. William F. Cody played when a boy. This elm 

 is known also as the "Green Tree Hotel"', because it was the rendez- 

 vous of river men who came to LeClaire in search of employment. 

 In its grateful shade they congregated, cooked their meals, and spread 

 their blankets, making its shelter their home in time of unemploy- 

 ment. 



KANSAS 



The Custer Elm, at Council Grove, under which General Custer 

 camped one night in 1867. while on his way with his famous Seventh 

 Cavalry to quell an Indian uprising along the old Santa Fe Trail. 



Kit Carson Elm, near Halstead on the bank of Black Kettle Creek, 

 served as a marker for the Arapahoe and Osage Indian hunters. It 

 Avas here that Kit Carson and his band of pioneers, camping for the 

 night, were surprised by the Comanche Indians. 



MARYLAND 



The Clara Barton Centennial Oak. at Glen Echo, was planted by 

 a representative of the American Forestry Association. Easter Sun- 

 day in 1922. in front of the house where the founder of the American 

 Red Cross died on Easter Sunday 1912. Clara Barton was born on 

 Christmas Day, 1821. in Massachusetts. 



NEW YOKK 



Friendship Elm (American elm), planted in 1860 on the Mall in 

 Central Park. New York Citv, by King Edward VII, then Prince 

 of Wales. 



Friendship Elm (English elm), planted by the Duke of Windsor, 

 then Prince of Wales, in Central Park, New York City, in 1920. It 

 is 100 feet from the spot where his grandfather planted an American 

 elm in 1860. 



European green beech planted by the Queen of the Belgians, in 

 Central Park, New York City, in 1919. as a token of Belgium's 

 enduring affection for the people of the United States. 



The Wayne Black Walnut, or Black Walnut of Stony Point, takes 

 its name from association with Mad Anthony Wayne, Revolutionary 

 hero, and its location at Stony Point. N. Y. Also, the belief has 

 been handed down that, under this old walnut tree, the patriots of 

 Stony Point were paid by Washington after the battle. There seems 

 to be no reason to doubt that the tree was there at the time, and 

 the shade of its branches must have made the spot most fitting for 

 such an occasion on a hot July day (71 , pp 82-83) r 



2 Italic numbers in parentheses refer to Literature cited, pp. 111-115. 



