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yearly rental for the place including the tree in order to save the 

 elm. The place is now owned by the Whittier Association, and the 

 preservation of the beautiful old tree is assured. 



Avery Oak, at Declham, the oldest white oak in Dedham, bears the 

 distinction of having been selected as suitable material for the cele- 

 brated and much-honored frigate Old Ironsides. The amount offered 

 was $70, but the offer was refused because the owner's wife, Mrs. 

 William Avery, greatly admired the tree and prevailed upon her 

 husband to spare it (105, p. 77). 



Gulliver Elm, at Milton, so called because it was deeded in 1833 

 by the First Congregational Parish in Milton to Isaac Gulliver who 

 gave bond for its perpetual exemption from molestation. 



Logan Elm. (See Trees associated with the building of the Nation, 

 p. 37.) 



OKLAHOMA 



McAlester's Lone Pine, McAlester. This tree stands in the middle 

 of a wide street, with ample roadway on each side and is protected 

 by a concrete curbing and a wire fence stretched on iron posts. It 

 was there among its own kind long before the foot of white man 

 tramped over the McAlester ranch. 



PENNSYLVANIA 



Greason White Oak, standing back of the railroad station at 

 Greason on the Cumberland Valley Branch of the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road, about 5 miles southwest of Carlisle. The farm on which the 

 oak stands was long owned by Robert Greason, for whom Greason 

 station is named. He would not agree to sell the tract to the railroad 

 until the president of the road assured him that this splendid white 

 oak would be given the best of care. 



New London Oak, near the Presbyterian Church in Chester 

 County. (See Trees associated with religion, p. 53.) 



Sacred Oak of the Delaware Indians of Oley Valley, Berks County 

 (<20, v. 38). This chestnut oak was saved generations ago, at the 

 request of an Indian chief, and nourishes today on the Hocli farm, 

 in Oley Township, a few miles northeast of Reading (fig. 28). (See 

 also Trees notable for unusual size or age, p. 92.) 



SOUTH CAROLINA 



Washington Live Oak, at Charleston. (See Trees associated with 

 notable people, p. 4.) 



TEXAS 



Ancient pecan a few blocks from the city hall of San Antonio, on 

 South Flores Street, from which Texans and Mexicans gathered 

 pecans in season during the troublous times of 1836-37. Some years 

 ago the owner of the property on which the tree stands decided to 

 erect a large vehicle warehouse and salesroom. Not wishing to de- 

 stroy so venerable a relic, he had the structure built around its 



