Show planting wedding oaks oak princess august wilhelm Wll helm wife oi of the kassera kal sera sers fourth son has set herself the task ot of reviving one ot of Germ Germany anys 1 oldest customs that according to which newly wedded couple coupled immediately aa ter the marriage ceremony plant a con coi pie of oak saplings side by side in I a park or by the roadside of their n us tive town the town of munchausen hausen in shurld gla to Is the first to respond to the prin cess appeal A municipal official ap pears at the church door after every ever wedding and invites the bride and bridegroom to drive with him in a car ariage to a new road near the town anil and there plant oak saplings the tree planting idea was started by a former elector of Branden brandenburg burl with the object of repairing the ages caused by the 30 years war tho th elector forbade young persons to mar maj ry until they had planted a number ol at fruit trees |