Show FAMOUS TREES IN CAPITAL National Botanical Garden Has Many That Were Planted by Nations Nation's v Distinguished Men Including the modest salary granted i r the national botanIca botan- botan Ica leal Washington has always alwa's been very economically supported by b- congress and deserves high credit for what It has accomplished with a n conservative con- con Income But nut men who cultivate to attempt attempt at- at vote vate flowers are usually willing tempt the maximum of beauty with the Ii J minimum of working capital The garden gardon gar- gar don den hn has mun many things that cannot be duplicated Particularly Interesting by distinguished ills dis the trees planted to YI visitors are nrc men Oharles Charles A A. Dana 5 planted an nn acorn which he brought Jot I from China Chinn General Grant planted an un acacia Senators Hoar and Evarts E each planted a cedar of ot Lebanon and Senator Sean Sena tor Crittenden planted an nn oak There Is a tree planted by Edwin Booth and another planted by hy Edwin Forrest But Dut the most famous tree of ot all nil Is the hornbeam hornbeam hornbeam horn horn- beam planted b by President Lincoln As It now stands In the garden the about one- one this tree covers shade ot tenth of ot an acre |