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Figure 24. 



-The Lanier Oak, at Brunswick, Ga. (Courtesy of American 

 Automobile Association.) 



LOUISIANA 



Evangeline Oak, at St. Martinville, on Bayou Teche, a giant live 

 oak which marks the spot where the Acadians, driven from Nova 

 Scotia, landed in St. Martinville in 1758, 2 years after their expulsion 

 from their former homes. It has been immortalized by Longfellow 

 in his poem, Evangeline. 



Maryland Live Oak, at New Roads, under which James Ryder 

 Randall wrote the words of Maryland, My Maryland. 



MASSACHUSETTS 



Oliver Wendell Holmes Pine, on old road to Lenox, in a wide sweep 

 of lawn, a lone and superb pine much loved by Holmes. 



Two notable white oaks in front of the Wayside Inn, on the State 

 Road, in Sudbury, about 20 miles west of Boston, immortalized by 

 Longfellow in his Tales of a Wayside Inn. 



Louisa May Alcott Elms, in front of the Alcott home and the little 

 grove of pines and spruces just beyond it. Under the shade of the 

 elms once lived the author of Little Women, and among the whisper- 

 ing pines Hawthorne walked, thought, and wrote, or conversed with 

 his friend, Thoreau. 



Pratt Elm, or "The Great Elm of Concord," believed to have been 

 set out in 1700. Beloved of Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau. 



Waverly Oaks, along Beaver Branch, near Waverly Station, 6 or 

 7 miles from Boston, are remarkably large trees and are famous, not 



