Show planting wedding oaks oaka princess august wilhelm Wll helm wife ot of the laisers kaisers kai kal sers fourth son has set herself the task of reviving one of germanys germanas Germ anys oldest customs that according to which newly wedded couples immediately after the marriage ceremony plant a couple of oak saplings side by side la in a park or by the roadside of their na tive town the town of munchausen hausen in thurin gla gin Is the first to respond to the princess appeal A municipal official ap pears at the church door after ever wedding and invites the bride and bridegroom to drive with him in a carriage 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 the ages caused by the 30 years war tn elector forbade young persons to mar ra ry until they had bad planted a number ol at fruit trees |