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Show Tree With Interesting History, Secretary Hitchcock recently planted plant-ed In tho Whlto House grounds an oak sapling grown from an ncorn taken ftom a (Icorgo Washington oak at St. Petersburg Tho ltusslan onk was grown from nn acorn taken from n trco plnnli (I by Washington Somo Itusslana who wire, visiting tho Unit, ed Statos gathered soma ncorn s from tho Washington oak at Mount Vernon, an Immenso tree mar tho generals house planted them In Ht l'etersburg, ' and thoy nro now among tho most ' splendid trees on tho avenues of tho Uusslan capital When Secretary Hitchcock was minister to Hussla, ho brought homo somo of tho acorns I from theso tree nml planted them nt hla homo In Missouri It Is una of tho resulting saplings that he brought to Washington |