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MISC. PUBLICATION 295, U. S. DEFT. OF AGRICULTURE 



Miami Apple Tree, near the city of Fort Wayne, at the junction 

 of St. Marys and St. Josephs Rivers, marks the site of the most noted 

 village of the Miami Tribe of Indians. 



Constitutional Elm, Corydon, beneath which on June 10, 1816, 

 members of the constitutional convention met to deliberate upon the 

 articles of the organic law to be adopted for the government of the 

 new State of Indiana. It is protected by the citizens of Corydon as 

 one of Indiana's famous historical landmarks. 



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Figure 15. — Council Oak, at Sioux City, Iowa. (Courtesy of the Extension 



Service.) 



Council Oak (great bur oak) at Sioux City, believed to have been 

 150 years old when Lewis and Clark saw it on their way to the 

 Pacific coast and there held council with the Indians (fig. 15). 



Plow Oak, Exira, the tree that grew around a plow left leaning 

 against the tree by a homesteader who went to the Civil War and 

 never returned. 



Peace Tree — a sycamore — initial tree of an aboretum dedicated 

 to the memory of the early pioneers, by its planter. W. H. H. Barker, 

 of Harvey. 



