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Trees have also played their part in history and romance and 
sites of important events have long been marked by them. 
ere the event occurred apart from trees it has often been cus- 
tomary to mark the spot by a tree planted by some distinguished 
person. Albert Edward, now King Edward the seventh, planted 
a tree at the grave of Washington on the occasion of his visit to 
America in 1860; General Grant planted the tree which marks 
the site of the Lexington church on the centenary of the battle, 
April 19, 1876, and Li Hung Chang planted the sacred tree of 
China over the site of the first burial place of Grant on the banks, 
of the Hudson. 
Herne’s Oak at Windsor, under which the festivities of Hal- 
lowe’en were held and under which Falstaff played the fool and 
came to grief through the merry wives of Windsor, was not 
obliterated until 1863, not far from Windsor Castle. Every 
Yankee school boy knows the story of our own most famous 
oak where the royal charter of Connecticut was hid, and the 
church bells of Hartford tolled a requiem when the old tree fell 
in 1856. All about New York are trees which traditions say 
were the hanging places of British spies; one of the most noted 
of these is the old ‘‘ cow-boy oak” at Yonkers. 
The linden tree was one of the favorite trees of German legend 
and even to-day there are usually lindens standing in the mar- 
ket places of most of the smaller cities and towns where the 
peasants of the Fatherland sing and dance ‘“ unter den Linden.” 
The famous street of Berlin which bears this name from the 
double row of lindens along its central esplanade loses much of 
“its fascination when we find that the trees, far from meeting our 
expectations, are of recent planting and form an inconspicuous 
setting to the higher buildings that line either side of the street. 
One of the most famous lindens in Germany is the one at Nur- 
emberg which stands, 
‘Tn the court yard of the castle bound by many an iron band,’’ 
reputed to have been planted by Kunigunde, wife of Duke Henry 
the second, of Bavaria, who was crowned king of the Germans 
in the year 1002, and emperor in 1014. At the time Longfel- 
low wrote his famous Nuremberg poem in the early forties it was 
