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



FIGURE 25.— THE GLEBE OAK. ROCK CREEK CEMETERY. WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Huntington Elm. (See Trees that have had special protection, 

 p. 56.) 



IOWA 



Denmark Elms (American elms), in the village of Denmark, near 

 the Congregational Church. While Deacon Trowbridge was in the 

 act of planting them in 1865. a courier galloped up with the news 

 of the assasination of Abraham Lincoln. 



KANSAS 



Lincoln Memorial Elm (American elm), at Atchison, in the church- 

 yard of a small Methodist church. Here Lincoln spoke preceding his 

 nomination for President of the United States. The crowd to hear 

 him overflowed the building, and an audience larger than that inside 

 gathered around the young elm outside the open window near which 

 Lincoln stood. The tree has been carefully preserved and bears a 

 bronze tablet, the gift of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 



KENTUCKY 



Famous elm at Boonesborough. (See Trees associated with the 

 building of the Nation, p. 27.) 



NKW JERSEY 



Historic white oak in Friends' Cemetery, at Salem. The tree is 

 supposed to have been in its prime when Salem was founded in 1675 



