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only for size but also for association with James Russell Lowell and 

 the writing of his Vision of Sir Launfal (83). (See also Trees 

 notable for unusual size or age, p. 85.) 



Sheffield Elm, which, tradition says, was standing when the town 

 of Sheffield was settled, in 1725. Oliver Wendell Holmes included 

 the elm at Sheffield among those of greatest size, beauty, and sym- 

 metry of form. 



_ The beautiful Whittier Elm, near the poet's birthplace at Haver- 

 hill. (See also Trees that have had special protection, pp. 56, 58.) 



MICHIGAN 



A red oak towers above the old Walker Tavern on the main high- 

 Avay between Detroit and Chicago, where the road from Toledo, Ohio, 

 crosses the Chicago Pike. It spreads its shade over the roof that 

 sheltered James Fenimore Cooper and other notables of the early 

 days. Here Cooper is said to have written Oak Openings. The 

 treetop has been thinned out. Local old-timers tell of the night 

 that this was done, so that a flag might fly from a high place at the 

 rally for "Tippecanoe and Tyler too." 



NEW HAMPSHIRE 



Whit tier's Pine Tree, on the Sturtevant farm, near Sunset Hill. 

 Center Harbor. Whittier bestowed upon it the name "Wood Giant" 

 (1886), but it is now called "Whittier's Pine Tree." 



NEW JERSEY 



Hadclon Yews, site of the old Hacldon Homestead at Haddonfield, 

 immortalized in Longfellow's beautiful poem, Elizabeth. 



NEW YORK 



Oak from Stratford-on-Avon, England. A little oak from Strat- 

 ford-on-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare, was sent to Walter 

 Hines Page when he was America's Ambassador to the Court of St. 

 James, by the mayor of historic Startford. The precious package 

 was immediately shipped to the Shakespeare garden committee of 

 Central Park, New York, which had it planted in the corner known 

 as the Garden of the Heart. 



Shakespeare Memorial Oak, occupying a place of honor on the 

 campus of the L T niversity of Rochester. This oak was brought from 

 Shakespeare's home in Stratford-on-Avon, England, and was planted 

 in Rochester, April 23, 1864, in connection with the tercentennial of 

 Shakespeare's birth. 



Treaty Tree of Phillipse Manor near New York City. Under this 

 old chestnut, it is said, Washington Irving wrote The Headless 

 Horseman. (See Trees associated with the building of the Nation, 

 p. 32.) 



NORTH CAROLINA 



Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, a 4,000-acre tract of virgin forest 

 near Lake Santeetlah in the Nantahala National Forest, southwestern 

 North Carolina, was dedicated on July 30, 1936, to the poet who 



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