Evening star., 1932-10-09
SCIONS OF TREES WHICH SAW
BIRTH OFU. S. TO FORM GROVE
Elms. Walnuts, Oaks and Others in Ana
costa Park Project to Be Rich in Tradi-
tion-Dedication to Be Saturday.

course. will be immortallZed there.
young oak scion of the famous Lincoln
tree in Spencer County, KY, under
which the Civil War President played
and studied during his boyhood days,
will, no doubt, be among the outstand-
tree will stand nearby, direct descend
ant of the great maple at Augusta Me,
planted by patriot on the day the
President was killed-the first memorial
of its kind to him. From Charlottes-
vile, Va, may come scion of the
old James Monroe Tree, walnut that
was one of the closest companions to
the eXpounder of the Monroe Doctrine.
Thus will the manuscript read, and
as the visitor opens new chapters be-
fore new trees in that circle of great
statesmen, there will be the names of
John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster,
Rutherford B. Hayes. Benjamin Earri-
son. Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roose-
velt, Charles A. Sumner, j. j. Crit
tenden, Henry Cabot Lodge and Wood
row Wilson.
Soldiers Immortalized.
Not far away are the young trees of
war, of heroism, of bold sacrifices; here
the great soldiers of America are i'm
mortalized in living wooden monuments.
Immediately Valley Forge comes to
mind, and New Orleans, Gettysburg,
Antietam, Bull Run, the Wilderness.
The faces of Washington, Lafayette
Grant, Lee. Jackson. Taylor and Custer
dissolve into the scene as one finds
their names with others boldly written
in the living manuscript.
Among the several trees glorified by
Lafayette in the historic grove will un-
GOubtedly be an elm from Ware, Mass.
The fighting young Frenchman, on his
way to meet Gen. Washington, rested
beneath its shade. Another elm, at
Kennebunk, Me, may send a scion to
the grove. for against its trunk La
fayette rested and lunched with the
natives while touring the Colonies after
their independence.
An elm, too, may honor Gen. U. S.
Grant. a direct descendant of one he
planted in Washington Park, in Chi
cago. From Kansas may come another
elm. scion of the great Custer tree at
Council Grove Under this tree, now
che of the tallest elms in America, the
cClorful Indian fighter camped with his
famed 7th Cavalry. From the battle
ground of the Little Big Horn, where
the general made his last heroic stand,
will come another scion.
The old Monroe Tavern Elm at Lex
ington, Mass, to which horses were
tied during the battle of Lexington, and
the Dilworthtown Oak in Chester
County, Pa, where two British spies met
a sad fate during the battle of Brandy
wine, will certainly send their kind to
the banks of the Potomac.
Descendants of the trees of the In
dians-great old council and treaty me-
morials-will have their niche in the
historic grove. Perhaps one of the first
will be from the Treaty Oak on the
hill at Deanwood in the National Capt.
tai, under which important treaties be-
tween the white settlers and the Indians
were drawn up, and beneath which a
white woman, captive, was sentenced
never to wander from the shade of
the tree under penalty of DEATH
Possibly a descendant of the old
Council Oak on the banks of the st,
Joseph River in Indiana will be there,
for it was under this tree that LaSalle
called meeting of the various tribes
to win them over to the French. Ger
tainly there will be a scion of the Wite-
nagemont Oak at Schaghicoke, N. Y,
the great tree of peace" Wtenage-
mont means vale of peace" and the
tree was planted in 1876 by Gov. An
dros on the occasion of confirming a
treaty Of peace with the Indians. More
than thousand warriors were present
at the elaborate ceremonies of the tree.
Indians Left Historic Trees.
There will be many more among
them, the great Tiadaghton Elm and
the Sacred Oak from Pennsylvania,
the Treaty Oak from Texas and the
Council Tree from Illinois. For wher-
ever the Indian roamed his trail was
marked by historic trees.
And SO they will grow, these young
trees, to immortalize the life stream of
Americas great trees of tradition. Some
where, perhaps to itself still picturing
the meeting of Longfellow's Evangeline
and Gabriel at the old boat landing at
Poste des Attakapas, now known as St.
Martinville, in Louisiana, will stand
the scion of one of the most beautiful
American trees of tradition, the Evan
geline Oak Not far away, young pine
from LenoX Mass, will go back to the
day when it's parent was much loved
companion of Oliver Wendell Holmes,
while at distance, its leaves taking on
a golden glow as the living manuscript
is read, a young live oak from Ocra-
coke Inlet, N. c., may boast that be-
meath the boughs of its parent Edward
Teach, the romantic Blackboard" of
pirate lore. buried his golden loot.
Thus the pages turn as the living
manuscript is read; thus the tradition,
romance and lore of America survives
in living trees