126 TREES AS GOOD CITIZENS 



Visiting royalty has made its contribution to the 

 famous trees of America. In Central Park, New York, is 

 an American Elm which was planted by the late King 

 Edward VII, of Great Britain, during his visit to this 

 country as the Prince of Wales. Not more than ioo 

 feet away is an English Elm, planted in 1919, by the 

 present Prince of Wales, the widely beloved grandson of 

 the earlier visitor. The present prince also planted trees 

 at Annapolis and at Mt. Vernon, and took part in the 

 ceremonies at which Bishop Harding planted a tree, at 

 St. Albans Cathedral in Washington. When the King 

 and Queen of the Belgians visited this country, in 1919, 

 the Queen planted a European Green Beech in Central 

 Park, as a token of Belgium's enduring affection for the 

 people of America. These trees serve as fitting reminders 

 of the royal visits, and in the years to come they will stand 

 forth as living symbols of the bonds by which the civili- 

 zation of the Old World is linked with the New Democracy 

 of America. 



Trees of history abound in all parts of the United 

 States. Their Hall of Fame was conceived as an open 

 book of memory for their life stories. In its pages will be 

 found a record of events generously epitomizing the 

 development of American civilization. Because of the 

 existence of this permanent record, generations yet 

 unborn will have all the more intimate glimpse into the 

 past and all the clearer conception of the events of history. 

 In its own particular field of service, the Hall of Fame 

 for Trees is as necessary and important as the Hall of 

 Fame in which is perpetuated the memory of the achieve- 

 ments of man. 



