10 Common Trees 



The Centennial Oak 



This white oak was planted 

 July 4, 1876. by the Wom- 

 an's Suffrage Political Club 

 of Newbury, Geauga County, one of the earliest organized 

 clubs of its kind in America, to commemorate the organiza- 

 tion. 



It is a fine tree, about 16 inches in diameter and stands 

 a half mile south of Punderson Pond, and twelve miles south 

 of Chardon. A lead box was planted beneath its roots, 

 containing a roster of those present, and the addresses of 

 the speakers, numbered among whom was Frances Willard. 



The Cary Oak 



This tree is intimately related to the 

 lives of Alice and Phoebe Cary, the 

 famous Ohio authors. It was in 

 1832 when Alice was 12 years old, and Phoebe 8, that re- 

 turning home from school one day they found a small tree 

 which a farmer had grubbed up and thrown into the road. 

 One of them picked it up and said to the other, "Let us 

 plant it." As soon as said, these happy children ran to the 

 opposite side of the road and with sticks they dug out the 

 earth and planted the tree. It stands on the Hamilton-Cin- 

 cinnati Pike just north of the Clover Nook Home for the 

 Blind, at the entrance to the old Cary homestead. It was 

 injured by a stroke of lightning in 1926, but was subse- 

 quently repaired by tree surgeons. 



Leas Oak 



Leas Oak (Quercus Leana) is a hybrid of 

 the Shingle and Black Oak, and is interest- 

 ing because it was the original tree from 

 which the description of the hybrid was taken. This hybrid 

 occurs throughout Ohio. It is a fine large tree, and stands in 

 the city of Cincinnati. 



Tlie President's Grove 



"The President's Grove" at 

 Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio, 

 the home of former President 

 Rutherford B. Hayes, and now a state park, is a grove of 

 fine oaks and hickories of the original forest. A number of 

 these trees have been named after former Presidents of the 

 United States. They were christened by the former Presi- 

 dents placing their hands on the trees at the various times 

 they visited the home of President Hayes. 



Colonel Webb Hayes, the son of President Hayes, expects 

 to continue the naming of the trees at Spiegel Grove for the 

 former Presidents of the United States. 



