Show I OAK MARKS VENERATED SPOT Tree Planted Where Abraham Erected Erect Erect- ed cd Altar to the Lord Has Been Carefully Preserved It Is recorded ed that when Abraham was promised the possession of theland the theland land of ot Canaan and was commanded to walk through the land he removed removed removed re moved his tent tell and came carne and dwelt In t the e plain of Mamre which is in ill Hebron and built hullt there an altar t tJ I ItIle the tIle Lord This spot Is still sUIl ei by a great oak venerated alike b by Christian Jew nn and Mohammedan ItIs It ItIs Itis Is to this protection that one CIne must attribute its preservation In u a region cleared of almost all trees b by the improvident im 1111 provident Turk The species is not uncommon in Palestine and Major while stationed at ut general IH headquarters headquarters head head- quarters of the British army there sent to hew Kew gardens galden a small box of acorns which were Wele recognized as ns the fruit of Abrahams Abraham's tree Sir Joseph Hooker visited the time spot in 1860 nail and wanted to secure a specimen of the wood for Kew but bat no one would cut cutoff cutoff off oft a bough It a t was only when the snow which visited d Jerusalem in and which did not spare spare Hebron Heblon had broken down own one of the oaks oak's branches he was able to secure a portion of ot it which Is to be he seen to this day clay in hi one of the Kew mU museums But a a amore more practical fame awaits the tree for foT it is with It that th the S Syrian forests will probably he be rehabilitated in the bright ern era which 11 Is dawning du now that the Turk no lon lone e rules the land |