Horsford’s Sugar Maple Lives On at Versailles
April 2002 Volume 15, No. 1

Charlie Proutt and Eileen Schilling, owners of Horsford Gardens & Nursery, presented to France a sugar maple given to the Chateau Versailles by Governor Howard Dean and the State of Vermont. The maple was planted in an “American Grove,” donated in a gesture
of goodwill by over 30 states following France’s devastating hurricane of December, 1999. Vermont was the only state to send nursery “ambassadors” to deliver the tree. Horsford’s maple, we’re proud to report, was the largest of all of the trees shipped overseas from the
United States.