Other trees of interest in the grove are two oaks that have sprung 

 from acorns of the famous Charter Oak of Connecticut, also tulip 

 trees from James Madison's home in Virginia and the Cleveland 

 hickory. It is related that Chief Justice of the United States 

 Supreme Court William H. Taft was a guest at the grove when about 

 to begin his campaign of 1908; he was requested to select his tree; 

 laying his hand upon one of the finest oaks on the place, he remarked 

 "This is about my size." 



"Grandfather's Oak," standing close by the trail, where the 

 ground bore, for many years, the deep print of "tramping moccasins," 

 earned its fame through the incident of Mrs. Hayes' grandfather hav- 

 ing camped beneath it during the War of 1812. Scars made by his 

 camp-fire are still visible oh its trunk. 



The Lucy Hayes Chapel, named in her honor, was outlined in 

 young walnut trees by Mr. Hayes, in a field bordering the Grove. 

 It possessed "nave, transept and tower," and as he was accustomed 

 to say, it was a chapel that "would be worth looking at two hundred 

 years hence." 



Lincoln Memorial Tree 



On April 27, 1865, the day appointed by Governor Stone, of 

 Iowa, as a day of mourning for President Lincoln, John Fine, of 

 Decorah, la., dug up a hackberry shoot and transplanted it to the 

 ground in front of his house. It has developed into one of the finest 

 trees in the State, and is nearly one hundred and ten feet high and 

 twelve feet in circumference. It is one of the few hackberfies that 

 has attained to any measure of note. 



Gingko Tree at Grant's Tomb 



In 1897, a gingko, or Chinese Maiden-hair tree, sent by Li Hung 

 Chang, was planted at Grant's tomb, on Riverside Drive, New York 

 City. It is marked by a bronze tablet, bearing the following in- 

 scription: 



"This tree is planted by the side of the tomb of General U. S. 

 Grant, ex-President of the United States of America, for the pur- 

 pose of commemorating his greatness, by Li Hung Chang, Guardian 

 of the Prince, Grand Secretary of State, Earl of the First Order 

 Yong Hu, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of 

 China, Vice-President of the Board of Censors. Kwang Hsu, 23rd 

 year, 4th moon, May, 1897." 



Elms Planted by Royalty 



The visit of the Prince of Wales to America in 1920, is commem- 

 orated by an English Elm which he planted in Central Park, New 

 York City, one hundred feet from the spot where his grandfather, 

 Edward VII of England, planted an American Elm, half a century 

 earlier. The Prince was welcomed on this recent occasion by Charles 



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