AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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HALL OF FAME" FOR TREES 



Because a tract of forty acres was set aside by A. E. 

 Wxltse, a mining man of New York City, that this tree 

 might be saved, it has been nominated for a place in the 

 Hall of Fame of the American Forestry Association by 

 J. R. Prince, of Tuolumne, California. 



The first flag ever thrown to the breeze in the 

 South, on which was printed "Immediate Separate 

 State Action" was girded to this Red Oak, writes 

 W. D. Craig, of Chesterfield, South Carolina, in 

 nominating this tree for a place in the Hall of 

 Fame of the American Forestry Association. The 

 flag stayed there, Mr. Craig adds, until General 

 Sherman burned the court house and the jail. 



The Women's 

 Club of Fort 

 Myers, Florida, of 

 which Mrs. Thom- 

 as A. Edison is a 

 member, saved this 

 tree when there 

 was talk of cut- 

 ting it dopm at the 

 time the court 

 house was built. 

 The tree is nomi- 

 nated for a place 

 in the Hall of 

 Fame by Mrs. 

 Carolyn A. Bran- 

 don. {Photograph 

 by Hunt.) 



