Poplar Tree On Neisler Farm
Thought Largest In Existence
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CLOVER. S. C.,? A large popu
lar tree which measures 20 feet
around located on the P. M. Nels
ler farm, in the Bethany section
in believed to be the largest tree
in York County and maybe the
largest popular tree in existence
today.
The tree is standing Inajestlcal
ly in the center of a small clump
of trees which is surrounded by a
large winter pasture. There Is a
spring nearby, which was proba
bly the reason the trees were left
when the land was cleared for
farming purposes.
Legend has it that a group of
women washed at this spring and
hung out their clothes to dry on
this tree during the Revolution
ary War along about the time the
battle was fought at Kings Moun
tain In 1780, It is said to have
been a small tree a?t that time
and one of the women broke out
the top so that she could hang
more clothes. The tree looks to
day like It might have been top
ped sometime during its lifetime.
Several years ago romance
blossomed on this particular spot.
It was a favorite place for pic
nics, where young people could
spend the day in the open with
old Mother Nature adding her ,
charm. And there are many ini- 1
tials and dates carved on the bark
of the ancient tree.
S. C. Pursley, a 70 year-old life
long resident of that vicinity said |
the tree hasn't changed much
since the first time he saw It
when he was a small boy. He said
he used to hunt squirrels in the
forest surrounding this tree and
had shot the small animals from
the branches of this particular
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KOREAN VETERAN ? Sgt Law
rence E. (Tib) Bennett, son of
Mrs. Bertie Bennett has recently
completed a Year's service In Ko
rea. He is serving as a clerk
typist with 8th Army headquar
ters. Sgt. . Bennett is a graduate
of Kings Mountain high school
and was formerly orerhauler
with Burlington Mills' Phenlx
Plant before entering service;
His address is Kq. EUSAK. Sig.
Sec., APO 301 c/"o PM. San Fran
cisco, Calif.
tree.
David Pursley also remembers
killing squirrels out of this tree.
He said It had not been many
years since the land surrounding
tnls tree was covered wiih forest.
The tree itself Is now hollow In
side.
Mrs. Maggie Belle Quinn who
spent a part of her life In this
neighborhood, said it had been
told that Miss Mary Kowler, a
schoolteacher, and 16 seventh
grade pupils had been inside the
tree at once. D. D. McCarter,
York County treasurer, said ho
Duplin Man Likes
To Try New Ideas
"I don't run a. test farm, but I
do like to try out new farming
practices on a small scale before
I adopt them," says Lawton
Smith, Negro farmer of Route 2,
Warsaw.
New chemicals may give fan
tastic results for other people, but
Smith likes to find 'out for him
self what they will do. So when
he hears of some new material or
a new practice that sounds good,
he tries It out on a limited scale
oh his own farm.
Rlddlck E. Wllklns, Negro farm
agent in Duplin for the State Col
lege Extension Service, reports
that last year Smith used a small
plot to test the use of ferbam for
blue mold control. The results
were so outstanding that this
year he feels the "Ice" is "safe to
walk ?on." He plans to use f erbam
on all his beds this year.
Smith's son, Lawrence, 10-year
bld 4-H Club member, made 84
bushels of corn on one acre of N.
C. 27 hybrid. The average for the
neighborhood was about 36 bush
els to the acre.
"It looks like father and son
will move forward together,"
commends Agent Wllklns.
and four or five companions had
been in the tree to seek shelter
from a rain while they were pos
sUm hunting in the woods near
there. . ?
Even though the surrounding
pastures prevents most people
from going near the tree, still
some drive by the road some 400
yards away Just to see the big
tree stretching Its mighty branch
es upward.
The best route to drive by is
to go up the Kings Mountain
road from York, or down the
Kings Mountain road from Beth
any to Grady Adams' home,
where you turn westward. The
tree is about a mile. and half off
the Kings Mountain road.
If all the people who work In
the oil industry held hands, they
would from a line reaching from
San Francisco to Detroit
Signs Of Spring
Appear In N. C.
RALEIGH? A succession of flo
ral tours and shows starting In
March will mark the progress of
spring across North Carolina
from the subtropical southeastern
coast to the Blue Ridge and Great
Smoky Mountains.
Early signals of spring are al
ready apparent In early blooming
camellias in the southeast, espec
ially at Orton Plantation and
Airlle Gardens near Wilmington
and Southport.
In a few weeks huge fields in
the Dutch community of Castle
Hayne, Just north of Wilmington,
will glow with daffodils, narcissi,
tulips, gladioli, and other flowers
grown for market.
The last weekend of March
brings the first formal welcom
ing of spring? Wilmington's fifth
annual Azalea Festival, featured
by a "million azaleas". For four
days? March 27-30- thousands of
visitors will tour such show
places as Orton, Airlle, and
Greenfield Park in Wilmington.
Last year more than 125,000 at
tended the , Festival and the as
sociated $10,000 PGA Azalea
Open Golf Tournament.
The Goldsboro Garden Club
will haye a tour on April 3-4. A
major point of Interest for visi
tors is nearby Cliffs of the Neuse
State Park, where a natural meet
ing of coastal hill, and mountain
flora .occurs on sand bluffs over
looking the Neuse River.
The Southern Pines Garden
Club plans a tour In early A?rtl.
Flower shows are being held by
garden clubs of Greensboro, April
17-18; Raleigh, May 1-2; Rocky
Mount, mid-May; and Ashevllle,
May 22-23. .
Early April normally brings
the peak of the spring blooming
season to two early capitals of
North Carolina which offer assis
tance to visitors who come to see
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historic buildings along their
shaded streets. At New Bern,
which has more than a hundred
buildings over a century old, the <
Chamber of Commerce furnishes
free guide books. At Edenton,
guided tours of the town and
countryside may be arranged |
with the Edenton Tea Party i
Chapter of the D. A. R. The two i
towns offer these services the
year-round. |
Another early April spectacle
is the blooming of the large tulip
fields of the Terra Cela communi
ty of Hollanders near Washing
ton, N. C.
I In April the color parade Is ad
vancing also into the Sandhills
resort area of Pinehurst and
Southern Pines, where there is a
noteworthy display of the State
flower, dogwood, against a back
drop of long-leaf pines. In late
March and early April, peach
trees put forth their blossoms in
orchards alqng the Sandhills
highways.
At Durham, the Sarah P. Duke
Memorial Gardens of Duke Uni
versity begin a three- month flow
ering show. Planting in the 20
acre amphitheatre are arranged
so that an overlapping succession
of fresh bloomings continues
from April to July. The gardens
are open the year-round.
A dozen miles away at Chapel.
Hill, site of the nation's, oldest
State university, dogwood ap
pears in profusion. The Coker
Arboretum, containing almost
every tree or shrub that grows in
the temperate zone, is a year
round attraction.
Spring comes along in April,
too, at the thermal belt resort of
Tryon on the southeastern slopes
of the Blue Ridge Mountains. An
outstanalng attraction is the
flower sanctuary of Pearson's
Falls, between Tryon and Saluda,
which is maintained by the Tryon
Garden Club.
In March and April comes a
prelude to the main mountain
flowering show ? the blossoming
of smaller ground flowers, such
as hepatlcas, clnquefoll, violets,
trillium, wild Iris, phacelia, and
mountain bluets. In late April
and May, dogwood blooms on the
mountainsides.
In mid-May the pink azalea ap
pears, and early in June the
flame azalea, ranging in color
I*? clear leJnon yellow through
brilliant orange to deep red, be
gins blooming at lower eleva
tions..
The flame, azalea climbs to
ward the top of the higher hard
wood slopes in June. Spectacular
natural gardens are on Gregory
Bald in the Great Smoky Moun
tains National Park and on W?"
ah Bald, where the John Byrne
Memorial Tower offers a 360-de
gree view into the Nantahala Na
tional Forest near Franklin.
A famed cencentratlon of
mouhtain laurel is the Pink Beds
of Pisgah in the Plsgah National
Forest near Brevard, usually at
their best in June.
Purple rhododenron overlaps
the azalea and laurel seasons
with a June appearance of the
purple-pink Ca<awbiense on the
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the meadow-like crest of Roan
Mountain, soaring above 6,000
feet near Bakersville in Mitchell
County. The display usually b at
its height in late June. New roads
make it easier to reach the gar
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