Three in front of the house on the corner of West and The 
Spencer Streets, and five in front of the honse on the south Calhoun 
side of Prospect Street known as the Bull place, now owned by Elms 
Mrs George Eichards, were planted by John C. Calhoun in 
1805, in front of the house, where he was a temporary resident, 
while a student in the Litchfield Law School. 
Planted by the young soldiers, a double row of Elms on far The Trees 
West Street (near the present home of Milo Beach), where they op 1812 
were encamped. 
A double row of Elms, on the Bantam Road at Harris Plains, The Trees 
planted by sixteen young soldiers encamped there on their of 1863 
return from war in memory of their fallen comrades. 
Alice E. Kingsbury. 
Garden Club of Litchfield. 
At Sagtikos Manor, Bayshore, there is an English Oak tree Two 
of great size which has always been known as "General Sir Interesting 
Henry Clinton's Tree." General Clinton was one of the four Trees on the 
Generals who stayed at the Manor House during the Battle SouthJShore 
of Long Island, which was fought August 27th, 1776. of 
This tree was probably named for him during this stay with Long Island 
Jonathan Thompson, the owner of the property at that time, 
and ancestor of the present owner, Mr. David Gardiner. The 
patent for this property, which has always been in the same 
family, dates back to 1692, at which time the tree was known to 
exist, yet due to its size it must be many, many years older. 
The circumference of the tree three feet above the ground 
is fourteen feet and seven inches, and the spread of its branches 
is one hundred and two feet and three inches. 
There is also on this property another interesting tree 
supposed to have been brought from China by one of the sea- 
faring ancestral owners. It is the Varnish Tree, Koelreuteria 
paniculata. There are only a few trees of this species known to 
exist in the United States, and this is one of the — if not the — 
largest. It is six feet and three inches in circumference, three 
feet above the ground; has a spread of branches fifty-one feet 
and nine inches, and towers sixty-five feet in the air. In the 
spring it bears a profusion of yellow blossoms which are some- 
what like those of the Horse Chestnut tree, except that the 
flowers are pendant instead of standing upright. One often sees 
the outline of such a tree in Chinese lacquer work. 
Both trees are over half a mile from the Great South Bay, 
yet not many feet above tide water. 
Florence B. Lentilhon. 
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