Hildene, Robert Lincoln's Vermont estate

[Jim Page]

(11-29-2012 06:39 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I'm trying to remember the name of those wonderful trees at Edison's home in Fort Myers - the ones whose roots grow so many feet out of the ground that you can practically walk under the roots??

Banyon trees!!! We had those in Naples, too; there was an enormous one in what was then called Fleischmann Gardens, an area donated by the folks who sold yeast. That site later became Jungle Larry's African Safari.

Don't know what it might be now, if it's even still there.

--Jim