• The Weeping Beech was a historic tree located at Weeping Beech Park in Flushing, Queens, New York City. It was the mother of all European weeping beeches...
  • Horticulturist Samuel Parsons brought the weeping beech sapling from Belgium in a flower pot, planting it in Queens in 1847.
  • The Weeping Beech tree that once rooted itself in this park lived for 151 years, from 1847 to 1998 — one of the City’s few trees to be landmarked.
  • Weeping Beech Tree, Kingsland Homestead, Weeping Beech Park, Flushing, Queens.
  • Flushing's landmarked 151yearold Weeping Beech was noble...and beautiful even in its twilight. ... Return to Queens Historical Society.
  • The weeping beech is a variety of the European beech, Fagus sylvatica, classified by Linnaeus in 1753.
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  • This weeping beech tree, once located in Weeping Beech Park, was the first weeping beech tree ever brought to the United States.
  • The Queens Historical Society was founded in 1968. It is headquartered at Kingsland Homestead, an 18th-century house in Flushing's Weeping Beech Park.
  • The Weeping Beech, with the yellow Queens Historical Society in the background. The oldest of the two landmarked trees was known as the Weeping Beach...