This photograph was made in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The Nutting Studio illustrated this picture on page 23 in the 1915 Expansible Picture Catalog. Wallace Nutting also illustrated this picture in his 1922 book, ‘Vermont Beautiful’ on page 60 of the first edition and on page 65 of the second edition.

Wallace Nutting describes the ‘parent’ of the birch trees in this picture as: “ ….a birch monarch measuring ten feet six inches around the bole, five feet from the ground, that is, the waist, where the white ladies of the wood, as well as those of the town, are measured.” “This one,” he writes, “grew on a slope above the road. Some fifty years ago when the road was made, in the old fashion, by plowing, seeds from the parent tree lodged in the furrows on each side of the road. Hence these beautiful children of a beautiful parent."

Another photograph made on the same stretch of roadway showing more birch trees made from the same parent tree mentioned above is "A Woodland Cathedral" studio # 14.