Gunnison Gazette | 1910-12-23 | Page 2 | Planting Wedding Oaks

Planting Wedding Oaks. Princess August W'ilhelm, 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 couple cou-ple of oak saplings side by side in a. park or by the roadside of their 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 carriage 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 marry mar-ry until they had planted a number of fruit trees.