Show OLIVE THAT SHELTERED SAGE Platos Tree Still Standing Near Site of Athena Academy It Is well known that olive trees will live to an extreme ago and trees aro known which aro many centuries old What IBknown ns Platos ollvt tree Is ono of the oldest upon record It stands near Athens and on the spot where tho Academy formerly 7 existed In splto of Its great ago It still appears to bo In a flourishing condition and has n vigorous foliage Although somewhat damaged by the combats of tho Insurrection It will do doubt hive for n long tlmo to coma Tho proprietor of tho ground M Vnmvacks had tho tree examined by tho naturalist Mlllaraltls In or don to bo assured whether the popular pop-ular legend dating It from the time of Plato could bo correct and It was found that its age was sufficient to r boar out tho legend As to popular belief M Camburoglus conservator l of tho National library of Athens states that tradition has It that the treo was no doubt already old when Plato sat under Its shado Scientific r American |