Show planting wedding oaks princess august wilhelm Wll helm wife of the kaisers keisers kai sers fourth son has set herself the task of reviving one of Germ germanas germanys Gor manya anys oldest customs that according to which newly wedded couples immediately after the marriage ceremony plant a couple of oak saplings side fide by side in a park or by the roadside of their na tive town the town of munchausen hausen in thurin gla gia Is the first to respond to the prin pria cess appeal A municipal official appears behra at the church door after every wedding and invites the bride and bridegroom to drive with him in a car can ariage to a new road near the town and there plant oak saplings the tree planting idea was started by a former elector of brandenburg with the object of repairing therah tho the ray ages caused by the 30 years war the th elector forbade young persons to mar ry until they had bad planted a number ol of fruit trees |