Archive image from page 36 of Curios and relics Plants (1888). Curios and relics. Plants curiosrelicsplanlinc_3 Year: 1888 ( East Capitol Street were destroyed a few months ago when the steam tunnel was put through between the new Supreme Court building and the Library of Congress. It reminds one of the fate of (he Signal Oak, which stood on the elevation at Wisconsin Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue. When the latter street was cut across Wisconsin Avenue, the tree was cut down and the 'bump' removed. The tree was probably the largest in Wash- ington, and from it during the Civil War the Union
Archive image from page 36 of Curios and relics Plants (1888). Curios and relics. Plants curiosrelicsplanlinc_3 Year: 1888 ( East Capitol Street were destroyed a few months ago when the steam tunnel was put through between the new Supreme Court building and the Library of Congress. It reminds one of the fate of (he Signal Oak, which stood on the elevation at Wisconsin Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue. When the latter street was cut across Wisconsin Avenue, the tree was cut down and the 'bump' removed. The tree was probably the largest in Wash- ington, and from it during the Civil War the Union Armv- signal corps wigwagged to the fleet in the river, or the troops on the Virginia shore. Also many peo- ple stood around the tree and watched the buildings of Washington burn to the touch of British torches in 1814. Pilots in the days of Georgetown's flourishing river commerce were wont to use it as a range mark in steering their course up the river from Alexandria. The Botanic Garden has two smaller elms which were planted by Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois, and Sena- tor Foraker. of Ohio. These trees were seedlings of the Washington Elm at Cambridge. Massachusetts, under which General Washington took command of the Continental Army in 1775. Two wahoo or winged elms near the west gate were planted by two men of the name of Morrill, one. Lot M. Morrill, of Maine, Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Grant and Hayes, and the other. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, who served forty-three years as con- gressman and senator. An oriental plane tree, plant- ed in 1862 by the Honorable Thad- deus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, was removed to the center of what in 1872 be- came Lincoln Park. The re- moval was neces- sary by reason of the overflowing of the Garden by the Potomac Rher in 1870. The tree at- tained a height of seventy feet in the park, but has since died. Six of the trees in the oak line at the Garden are reminis- cent of a by-gone day. A rcrl oak stands as a mem
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