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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



"HALL OF FAME" FOR TREES 



(Courtesy, N. Y. City Dept. of Parks) 



THE OAK FROM STRATFORD-ON-AVON 



A little oak from faraway Stratford-on-the-Avon was 

 planted in Central Park, New York, a few years ago, and it 

 has been nominated for the Hall of Fame by Miss Viola 

 Overman. The treeling was sent to Walter Hines Page, 

 America's ambassador to the Court of St. James, by the 

 mayor of historic Stratford, and the precious package was 

 immediately shipped to the Shakespeare Garden Committee 

 of Central Park. An appropriate program was arranged, and 

 with much stately ceremony, the famous little stranger ivas 

 planted in that corner of the Park knozvn as "Garden of 

 the Heart." 



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The "Corner Oaks" at the foot of Martin's Mountain at 

 Marlinton, West Virginia, are nominated for a place in the 

 Hall of Fame of the American Forestry Association by 

 Andrew Price. These oaks were marked "General Andrew 

 Lewis, October 6, 1751." General Lewis was the hero of 

 Point Pleasant and was the military trainer and patron of 

 George Washington, who tried to get Lewis appointed com- 

 mander-in-chief of the armies in the Revolutionary War, 

 but afterward the appointment came to Washington himself. 

 Marlinton is on a bottom known as the habitation of the first 

 English settler ivest of the divide. Mr. Price says the oaks 

 are the oldest marked comer trees in the Mississippi Valley. 



'CORNER OAKS" AT MARLIN'S MOUNTAIN 



