Show AGED OAK OAI IS S PART OF HISTORY centuries old and washington and clinton sat under it 1 I was at hogston diring daring tile the clinton rebur laj ceremonies on decoration day stif said d a now ow york nian man and I 1 stood a while beneath the branches brAn clies of what Is perhaps one of tile tho most remarkable mar kabie old oak trees to bo be found anywhere in this country just how old the tree Is no une one knows but thero there are records showing allowing that years ago it was vas a landmark the Th etreo tree stands there today to day wore more thau than foot feet high and its trunk to Is nine hine feet in diameter nowhere a oj it t did I 1 discover any sign of de acca e t or declining vigor but aside from its admirable cat cal condition and aspect this old tree bas historic interest the tree stands standa not A great way from the old senate house where rethe the sta teof now new york haq had its birth and it marks one cago d at a leot on an which tile the famous one leg jaal ditch governor of the colony peter built a sto stockade cUdde as ft A defense for the colonists against ma indians after the revolutionary war gen Wh W ington went up from now burgh to visit gen george clinton at kingston the two patriots sat beneath the spreading branches of this oak and sot foi hours recounted the events of the long struggle and doubtless discussed plans for the future welfare of the country who may know but that somo of at the benefits which we enjoy today to day ader tho the institutions of our government are results of the discus ua basoa vt of those two great patriots beneath this grand old treo tree I 1 brought myself to think so at any rato ralo A few miles from this historic old oak an old resident informed wo rno Is another tree which besides being an ancient landmark is something of ofa n curiosity it Is a chestnut tree with a 1 trunk 21 feet in circumference from which about six feet from 09 abo ground a white elm of large size has grown the chestnut trunk completely encloses that of the elm and the explanation of the curious association Is that at some time a branch of tho the chestnut vas broken off leaving a cavity in ach in time mould and vegetable matter collected and made suitable depth of soil for the aea ot of oae fre elm which lodged ther therein pir ij nui germinate and grow and tecoma oma a tree a veritable part of its liti protest ing IDS host tile the mammoth cheslaus ches laut trunk trun j |