PROGRAM HINTS AND HELPS 



SOME FAMOUS TREES 



Certain of the pupils can find information relating to the famous 

 trees mentioned below, and either recite a bit of verse or prose, or write 

 a short, interesting paper. Descriptions may be given of the trees as 

 an answer to roll call. 



1 The California Big Trees. 



2 The Treaty Elm of Philadelphia. 



3 The Liberty Elm of Boston. 



4 Washington's Elm at Cambridge. 



5 -The Charter Oak of Hartford. 



6 The Hamilton Trees of New York. 



7 The Tree from Napoleon's Grave. 



8 The Gary Sycamore. 



9 The Apple Tree of Appomattox. 



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10 Shakespeare's Mulberry Tree. 



11 The Banyan Tree of India. 



12 Burgoyne's Elm. 



13 The Cedars of Mt. Lebanon. 



14 Arnold's Willow near West Point. 



15 Magnolia Council Tree, Charleston, 



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 16 The Cypress Tree of Montezuma. 



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Treaty Elm, the great elm tree beneath the shade of whose branches 

 William Penn stood when he made his famous treaty with nineteen 

 tribes of Indians. 



Liberty Elm at Boston is another of the famous elm trees; it was 

 planted and dedicated by a schoolmaster to the independence of the 

 colonies, and was the rallying point for patriots before, during and after 

 the Revolutionary War. 



The Freedman's Oak, or Emancipation Oak, at Hampton, Virginia, 

 sheltered the slaves of the region when they first heard read President 

 Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. 



The Gary Tree planted by Alice and Phoebe Gary in 1832; a large 

 and beautiful sycamore seen from the Hamilton turnpike in Ohio. 



