The Alaska daily empire., 1922-07-17
EVERY STATE
 TO HAVE TREE
 IN ARBORE1OM
New National Move Meeting with Great Success Is
 Reported by Officials.


 state in tho. qnion will be repre- sented in the new national arbore- tum in Washington. Seeds, from trees in the Hall of Fame for trees with a history are being collected by the American Forestry Associa- tion form every state Lieut.. Col c. O. Sheril and Maj. D. l.. Weart of the Department of Pubic Build ings and Grounds are working out plans, whereby many of the trees and shrubs in the capital will be marked with their common names SO that thousands of visitors may know them.
 The first state to send tree seeds is Indiana. Dumont Kennedy of Craw fordsvile has sent in a box of seeds from the famous Dumont Ken nedy Elm. 3 .
 Many other famous trees will send children" to Washington for 2 home in the nations capital. There is the famous Lincoln hack berry at Decorah, Iowa, planted by John Finn, in memory of Lincoln few days after Lincoln was shot. MT Finn went in the woods and pulled up a sapling which he placed on the street in front of his house. Today the tree is one hundred and ten feet high
 Another tree that will be repre- sented will be the Washington Horse Chestnut at Bath, Pa, which was presented to Gen. Brown. by George Washington. The sapling came from MT. Vernon.
 In the list of famous trees from which seeds will come to Washing ton are the Sir Joseph Hooker Oak at Chico, Calf; The Wye Mills Oak at Easton, M; the Washington Walnut at Maplewood, N. J.; the Weathersfield Elm at Middletown, Conn the Oaks from England at Milford, Va; the Mulberry Tree at Spartansburg, s. O.; the Acacia Tree at Dayton, Ohio; the Rathbone Elm at Marietta, Ohio; the Bar tram Cypress at Philadelphia. Pa; f; Degoto Oak at Tampa, Fla; the Lafayette Poplar near Geneva, N. Y; Stratford on Avon Oak in Cen tral Park, New York City; Whit tier Elm at Haverhill, Mass: the McDonough Oak, New Orleans, La.; The Green Tree Hotel" at LeCiair, beneath which J. B. Barnes, who nominated it and. one Willie Cody. played as boys seventy years ago; The Sycamore E at Ft. Ball, now Tiffin Ohio; Kingston Oak at Kings ton, Tenn; Hiigard Chestnut at the University.s of California; Basking Ridge Oak, ,Basking Ridge, N. J.; Teddy's Delight at Phelps, N. Y.; Gen. Grants Tree. Chicago; Wesley Oak, St. Simon's Island Ga.; Shakes peare Tree at University of Roches- ter, N Y.; Webster Tree at Frank lin, N. H.: Battle Ground Oak and New Garden Oak. Guilfor College, N. e. Treaty Oak, Washington; Council Tree. Council Bluffs, Iowa; Pomona Live Oak, Pomona, Calf; Fremont Oak, Oakland Cal; The Tree that owns itself at Athens, Ga; Caney Creek Sycamore, Caney Creek, Ky. Johnson Oak at Corinth, Miss; Lafayette Tree at Concord. N. H.; the famous Scythe Tree at Waterloo, N. r.; the Logan Elm at Circleville, Ohio: LaFayette's Tree at Battle of Brandywine, Chadds Ford, Pa. and the Three planted by Lafayette at Yorktown.
 Everyone of these trees have seen history made or marks an his toric spot" says Charles Lathrop Pack, President of the American Forestry Association. 'In future years the nations capital is to be a national arboretum and the na- tion should be congratulated on the plans being made by Lieut.. Col. Sherill to this end. Trees and shrubs are being marked in plain English so that not only the resi- dents of the nations capital but the thousands of visitors can see the famous and interesting trees. This is of the highest educational value and every city in the country should mark their trees in the same way''