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TREES AS GOOD CITIZENS 
Visiting royalty has made its contribution to the 
famous trees of America. In Central Park, New York, is 
an American Elm which was planted by the late King 
Edward VII, of Great Britain, during his visit to this 
country as the Prince of Wales. Not more than ioo 
feet away is an English Elm, planted in 1919, by the 
present Prince of Wales, the widely beloved grandson of 
the earlier visitor. The present prince also planted trees 
at Annapolis and at Mt. Vernon, and took part in the 
ceremonies at which Bishop Harding planted a tree, at 
St. Albans Cathedral in Washington. When the King 
and Queen of the Belgians visited this country, in 1919, 
the Queen planted a European Green Beech in Central 
Park, as a token of Belgium’s enduring affection for the 
people of America. These trees serve as fitting reminders 
of the royal visits, and in the years to come they will stand 
forth as living symbols of the bonds by which the civili¬ 
zation of the Old World is linked with the New Democracy 
of America. 
Trees of history abound in all parts of the United 
States. Their Hall of Fame was conceived as an open 
book of memory for their life stories. In its pages will be 
found a record of events generously epitomizing the 
development of American civilization. Because of the 
existence of this permanent record, generations yet 
unborn will have all the more intimate glimpse into the 
past and all the clearer conception of the events of history. 
In its own particular field of service, the Hall of Fame 
for Trees is as necessary and important as the Hall of 
Fame in which is perpetuated the memory of the achieve¬ 
ments of man. 
