Oak. 
Quercus alba, Natura Orpver: Cupulifere— Oak Family. 
of trees, or has read more or less in its praise. The wood 
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3. or timber of many of the varieties is exceedingly useful to 
man, in many of the mechanical arts, but more especially in 
esship-building, on account of its great strength and durability. 
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it is also of historic interest to all Americans, as it was in 
the hollow of an oak at Hartford, that the Charter obtained by Gov. 
S Winthrop, the younger, for the colonists of Connecticut, from Charles I. 
of England, was secreted from October 31, 1687, to May, 1689. Sir 
Edmund Andros made an unsuccessful attempt to rob them of it, but 
ee thwarted by William Wadsworth, who spirited it off and hid it 
in the Oak, which from this circumstance was called the Charter Oak. 
It is supposed to have been upward of three hundred years old when 
blown down by a storm, Aug. 20, 1856, The Oak has been considered by the 
heathen as honored above all other trees, because the sacred mistletoe grows 
upon its branches. 
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Donor. 
HESE be the sheaves that honor’s harvest bears; 
The seed thy valiant acts; the world the field. 
—Fairfax. 
ONOR and shame from no condition rise: INE honor is my life; both grow in one; 
Act well your part, there all the honor lies. Take honor from me, and my life is done. 
—Pope. — Shakespeare. 
EAV’N, that made me honest, made me more 
Than ever king did when he made a lord. 
—Rowe. 
O much the thirst of honor fires the blood; (ee tall oak, towering to the skies, 
So many would be great, so few be good; The fury of the wind defies; 
For who would virtue for herself regard, From age to age, in virtue strong, 
Or wed without the portion of reward? Inured to stand and suffer wrong. 
\ —Dryden, —Montgomery. 
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