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Show Planting Wedding Oaks. Princess August Wllhelm, . wife of the kaiser's fourth son, has set herself the task of reviving one of Germany's oldest customs, that according to which newly wedded couples immediately after af-ter the marriage ceremony plant a cou pie of oak saplings side by side in a park or by the roadside of their native na-tive town. The town of Mulchausen, In Thurin-gia, Thurin-gia, is the first to respond to the princess' prin-cess' appeal. A municipal official appears ap-pears at the church door after every wedding and invites the bride and bridegroom to drive with him in a car riage 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 ravages rav-ages caused by the 30 years' war. The elector forbade young persons to man ry until they had planted a number oi fruit trees. |