Climbing trees, sitting under and in trees, walking in the woods, hiding things in hollow trees, camping in the woods, planting trees, growing trees, collecting nuts and seeds of trees; these are some of our combined mutual tree experiences. When I was a youngster I could and did climb every tree in my Castle, Greenmount, and Tutwiler Avenue neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee; except one. It was a very large straight tulip poplar. I could never figure out how to get up into it. It was very tall, seventy-five to eighty feet and thirty to forty inches in diameter. The first branch was about thirty-five feet up.
