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alone planted more than 6,000 trees at scattered points in the State 

 in honor of the Father of his Country. 



Elm near Washington's headquarters at Valley Forge. Beneath 

 this tree there is a marker which bears the following inscription : 



This elm, a scion of a tree planted by George Washington, was brought here 

 and planted in December 1888 by the State Secretary of the Patriotic Order 

 of Sons of America. 



Washington Ball Walnut, Maplewood, N. J. Historic walnut on 

 Ridgewoocl Road, planted beside the Timothy Ball house at the time 

 it was built, in 1743. Here Washington frequently visited his Ball 

 relatives while headquartering at Morristown. On such visits, accord- 

 ing to tradition, he tied his horse to an iron ring attached to this tree. 

 This tree is also referred to by George W. Clark, a great grandson 

 of Timothy Ball, as a tree of tremendous size and as a dividing line 

 between the congregations of the Presbyterian Churches, one at 

 Orange and the other at Springfield, N. J., those on the south 

 attending one church and those on the north, the other. 



Washington Friendship Tree (horsechestnut) at Bath, Pa. This 

 tree is said to be a memorial to the friendship existing between 

 Gen. George Washington and Gen. Robert Brown in Revolutionary 

 days. On one of General Brown's visits to Mount Vernon, when 

 peace had come, Washington dug from his garden two young horse- 

 chestnuts and presented them to his friend, who carried the saplings 

 on horseback over the mountains into the hills of Pennsylvania, 

 where they were planted at the home of General Brown at Bath. 

 Only one of the trees is alive today (fig. 2). 



Washington Live Oak at Charleston, S. C. Washington visited 

 Charleston in 1791, and here, so the story goes, Avas an honored 

 breakfast guest in the beautiful plantation home of the distinguished 

 Pinckney family. He heard the mistress of the household order 

 her gardener to cut down the large oak which obstructed the view 

 from the neAY portico. Washington, great tree lover that he was, 

 expressed the Avish that the tree be spared. It Avas. 



Other presidents were known for their interest in trees. 



John Quincy Adams was known as "the tree-planting Mr. Adams." 

 Thomas Jefferson Avas a Avell-known tree lover and tree planter. 

 There is a "President's grove" at Fremont, Ohio, the home of Ruther- 

 ford B. Hayes, nineteenth President of the United States, many of 

 the trees having been christened by former Presidents at times when 

 they visited the park. There are many General Grant trees in the 

 Avorlcl, planted in his honor during his trip around the world. 

 Theodore Roosevelt is perhaps best known as "the great conserva- 

 tionist" because of his interest in wise use of the forests and other 

 resources. 



Among AA^ell knoAAm trees of the Presidents are : 



The John Quincy Adams Elm (fig. 3), on the White House grounds 

 near the east entrance, Washington, D. C, planted during the admin- 

 istration of President John Quincy Adams.. 



At Wheatland, near Lancaster, Pa., the beautiful and carefully 

 preserved estate of James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the 

 United States, there are a number of fine old trees, notably a beautiful 

 old beech (fig. 4). Wheatland is open to the public as a shrine 



