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Andrew Jackson ’s Southern magnolia
According toDale Haney , the White House ’s horticulturalist , the old trees on the property are two southerly magnolia ( Magnolia grandiflora ) planted by Andrew Jackson between 1829 and 1837 . He planted them in honour of his married woman , Rachel , who go two calendar week after he get ahead the election , and before his inauguration . Alone , he left their home in Nashville , Tennessee for the White House , and he brought two magnolia sapling from the garden . Magnolias had been Rachel ’s favourite tree ; Jackson planted them in her retentivity , and he never remarried . The trees still bloom at the South Portico , and you could see it engraved on the back of a twenty dollar bill . ( A single-valued function of commorative trees at the White House ishere . It number the specimen with the twelvemonth and planting chair . )
Andrew Jackson ’s Southern Magnolia on the grounds of the White House . picture by : James W Rosenthal , 2006 , Library of Congress ( left ) ; JoshBerglund19 / Flickr ( right )
Abraham Lincoln ’s Honey Locust
A dear locust tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ( Gleditsia triacanthos ) in the Soldiers ' National Cemetery is known as the " witness tree"-the last know witness of Abraham Lincoln ’s Gettysburg Address on November 19 , 1863 . In the years following the Civil War , more than 100 trees were planted in the Cemetery , many to commemorate fallen soldiers ( Kentucky , for example , institute several Kentucky coffee Tree in pureness of soldier from the DoS ) , but the dearest locust tree is the only Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - and , indeed , the only experience thing - to have find out Lincoln bear that expectant American voice communication , the one that commence " Fourscore and seven years ago . “History buffs with some yard space may be concerned to know that ahistoric conservation organizationhas harvested the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ’s cum , and is now selling sapling descendent of Lincoln ’s honey locust .
Abraham Lincoln about to deliver the Gettysburg Address with a new honeylocust tree in the setting , and the tree today . Photo recognition : The National Archives ( left ) , William D Hewitt ( right ) .
George Washington ’s Tulip Poplars
George Washington never chop up down a cerise tree , but he did establish a stack of others — all American native species , by nature — at hisMount Vernon home base . Washington loved horticulture and he adopt the office of landscape designer at the estate . He design a wholesale bowling putting surface flanked with long rowing of trees . The canopied grounds were perfect for entertaining , specially when fellow horticulturalists were confabulate . Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin were frequent guests ( both of whom swap seeds with Washington ) , as was the Marquis de Lafayette , the French general and statesman . Of all the trees , the tulip poplar ( Liriodendron tulipifera ) were the Marquis ’s favored - he believe they were the quintessential American tree diagram , and he brought saplings home to France . These tulip poplar tree , descendents of those planted by Washington himself , were planted at Versailles and given to Marie Antoinette as a gift . Today , Washington ’s two tulip poplars still grow at Mount Vernon . In 1989 , an historic establishment reap and distributed seeds to locations across the country , include some to France , where Marie Antoinette ’s eighteenth - century tulip poplar had fallen in a storm .
A tulip poplar tree flower , and the tree diagram at Mount Vernon . Photo credit : delawarewildflowers.org ( left ) , mrshappyhousewife.com ( rightfulness ) .
Anna Laurent is a writer and photographer . Herworkexplores how we look at plants , and how those plant deport .
