web site......
Just an FYI post today.....
I was looking through a book on classification and was reading about the Ginkgo tree, which is a neat story on it's own. I was looking up some web sites of nurseries that sell them and stumbled on this one...
http://www.historictrees.org/. You can order offspring saplings from the honeylocust that majestically stood and watched Abraham Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg address or..... offspring from the sycamore seeds that took the flight into space on Apollo 14 in 1971 or.....from an apple tree that Johnny Appleseed planted or..... from the Ginkgo tree that Harry Truman walked by every morning on his daily walk and used to talk to the tree. And many more. How neat is that!!!??? Such a neat way to keep the lineage of these historic trees going.
Edited to add....there is a search function on their web site if the tree you're looking for is not automatically listed. I did this for the Ginkgo tree.
Another tip....type catalog in the search function and more choices come up than is in the list on the left hand column. Don't know why, but there's more trees available than they first list.
I was looking through a book on classification and was reading about the Ginkgo tree, which is a neat story on it's own. I was looking up some web sites of nurseries that sell them and stumbled on this one...
http://www.historictrees.org/. You can order offspring saplings from the honeylocust that majestically stood and watched Abraham Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg address or..... offspring from the sycamore seeds that took the flight into space on Apollo 14 in 1971 or.....from an apple tree that Johnny Appleseed planted or..... from the Ginkgo tree that Harry Truman walked by every morning on his daily walk and used to talk to the tree. And many more. How neat is that!!!??? Such a neat way to keep the lineage of these historic trees going.
Edited to add....there is a search function on their web site if the tree you're looking for is not automatically listed. I did this for the Ginkgo tree.
Another tip....type catalog in the search function and more choices come up than is in the list on the left hand column. Don't know why, but there's more trees available than they first list.
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