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Famous Weeping Beech (Fagus sylvatica penduJa), at Flushing, 

 Long Island, said to be the tree to which the origin of all the trees 

 of its kind in the eastern part of the United States is traced. 



Shipmast locusts (Rohinia pseudoacacia var. rectissima Raber) 

 (fig. 31). Among first ancestors of their kind in New York State, 

 are several at Washington Inn, Roslyn, Long Island, and one on the 

 grounds of Isaac R. Coles, at Glen Cove. This variety of locusts 

 is said to have been introduced by Capt. John Sands (1649-1712), 

 the tradition being that he brought seedlings from Virginia. During 

 the Revolution, the smaller trees that grew from the first plantings 

 were cut for posts by Revolutionary soldiers. The name "shipmast 

 locust" came from the unusually straight trunk. 



Figure 31. —OriginalShipmast Locust Trees, Washington Inn. Roslyn. N. y. 



(COURTESY OF C. S. SWINGLE. SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE.) 



Black Walnut trees overshadowing the grave of Theodore Roose- 

 velt at Oyster Bay, from which walnuts have been taken for plant- 

 ing by Boy Scouts all over the country as memorial trees to Theodore 

 Roosevelt. 



Gates Weeping Willow, Third Avenue and Twenty-second Street, 

 New York City. About 1712 Alexander Pope, English poet, found 

 8 willow twig in a drum of figs sent to him by a friend who was 

 traveling in Smyrna. From this twig grew the first weeping willow 

 (Salix babylonica) in England. In 1775 a British officer brought a 

 cutting of this tree to Washington's stepson, John Parke Custis, 

 and this was the first weeping willow in the United States. A 

 cutting from this tree, planted by General Gates, in 1790. has become 

 the famous Gates Weeping Willow of New York City 



