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Tlie Author's Grove 



The Author's Grove is located 

 in Eden Park, Cincinnati, and 

 it was here that the first Arbor 

 Day as a school festival was celebrated. The trees in the 

 grove were planted April 27, 1882, and from one to three, 

 for each famous American author. A Red Oak dedicated to 

 Emerson was set on the day of his death. There are six 

 species of oaks, white ash, blue ash, sugar maple, Norway 

 maple, catalpa, sweet gum, walnut and wild cherry in the 

 grove. 



There arc other historical trees in Ohio which space will 

 not permit of a description here. 



The State Forester at Wooster makes the request that any- 

 one who has information regarding historical trees or those 

 of outstanding size will send the information to him. 



Trees of unusual size and beauty in Ohio include the Cas- 

 key Elm in Oberlin, the Elyria Elm in the city park of 

 Elyria, the Gunkel Locust in Dayton, the Chillicothe Bald 

 Cypress with a circumference of 1 feet. The Rathburn Elm 

 in Marietta, one of the largest trees in Ohio, is on No. 8 

 Highway, as it enters the city on the north. 



Among some of the finest examples of the original forest 

 of Ohio may be found in the Huston Woods near Oxford; 

 Cedar Falls and Ash Cave State Forests Parks in Hocking 

 County, and the woods of the Ohio State Sanatorium near 

 Mt. Vernon. Unfortunately a number of the large trees of 

 the Sanatorium woods were cut a few years ago. 



"Now the trees are sentient beings; they have 

 thoughts and fancies; they stir with emotion; they 

 converse together; they whisper or dream in the 

 twilight; they struggle and wrestle with the 

 storm." 



John Burroughs. 



"It is pleasant to walk over the beds of these 

 fresh, crisp, and rustling leaves. How beautifully 

 they go to their graves! How gently they lay 

 themselves down and turn to mould, painted of a 

 thousand hues, and fit to make the beds of us 

 living." 



Henry David Thoreau. 



