“The horn-bound tree that to be cloven scorns;
Which from the tender vine oft takes his spouse
Who twines embracing arms about his boughs.”
The trees of New England seem to have been the same as those which were natives of England. The English poet Spencer in the first book of the first canto of “The Færie Queen” enumerates the latter in the following lines:
“Much can they praise the trees so straight and hy,
The sayling Pine; the Cedar proud and tall;
The vine-propt Elme; the Popplar never dry;
The builder Oake, sole king of forrests all;
The Aspine, good for staves; the Cypresse funerall;
The Laurell, meed of mightie conquerors