The Garden Club of Indiana Plant a Historic Tree Award Information

PLANT A HISTORICAL TREE

Now, every American can have a historic tree in their own yard. American Forests, a non-profit conservation group through the program—Famous and Historic Trees (FHT).

FHT has 75 historic trees they offer for sale in their catalog. The trees are direct descendents of trees that are still alive today and are taken from grafted cuttings or seeds.

You may grow a descendent of these trees. They include the last known surviving apple tree planted by Johnny Appleseed and believed to have been planted in 1840. Another tree is one of the original Japanese cherry trees in Washington D. C.’s Tidal Basin, a gift to President Taft from the Japanese Emperor in 1912. Other trees available include a sweet gum, weeping willow, sycamore and a pin oak from Graceland, an Ossage Orange tree believed to be taken from cuttings or seeds collected by Lewis & Clark, a Tulip Poplar planted in 1785 at Mount Vernon and an old oak from Ponca State Park, Nebraska, shown to be 350 years old.

More information can be found at www.historictrees.org or by calling 1-800-320-8733.

Indiana Gardens – Spring 2004