MEMORIAL TREES OUR HEROES' HALL OF FAME 



'HALL OF FAME" FOR TREES 



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Ab ove The largest Live Oak in the South, a veteran in 1763, has been nominated for a place in the Hall of Fame for Trees 



being compiled by the American Forestry Association at Washington. The Association wants reports on all trees with a history 



or of unusual size for its "Who's Who." A. D. Dart, of Oriental, North Carolina, who makes this nomination, says it was called 



"I.ovcrs's Oak" by the Indians. The tree is in a public park at Brunswick, Georgia, and a foot above the ground the circumference 



feet. This photograph was taken with the sun directly overhead and the shadow measured 90 feet in diameter. 



Below The most famous tree in Indiana is at Corydon. It is the Constitutional Elm, and it has been nominated for a place 

 in the Hall of Fame of the American Forestry Association at Washington, which is hunting for the trees of America with a his- 

 tory. On June 10, 1816, members of the Constitutional Convention met beneath this tree, which is on the banks of Big Indian 

 Creek, and a few hundred feet from the first State House. The tree has a spread of 124 feet, according to C. C. Deam, State 

 Forester. 



