Show OAK MARKS VENERATED SPOT tree planted where abraham erected altar to the lord has been carefully preserved it Is recorded that when abraham was promised the possession of tile tha land of 0 canaan and was commanded to walk through the land lie removed his tent and came and dwelt in the ue plain of Ala ilamae nire which Is tit in hebron and built there fill an altar to ti the lord tills spot Is still marle 1 by a great oak venerated alike by bv christian jew and mohammedan I 1 it t Is to this protection that one must attribute its preservation in a region cleared of almost all trees by the improvident proN ident turk the species Is not uncommon oil in palestine and ami i major portal while stationed at general lemd headquarters of the british army there sent to new kew garden a small box of ae acorns orns which were nvere recognized as the fruit of abrahams tree sir joseph hooker the spot in esgo and wanted to secure a specimen of tile wood for kew but no one would cut oft off a bough it was only when the snow which jerusalem in 1850 all and did not spare t Ift habron bron had broken doni down it oil one of the oaks brandies branches lie he was wai able to secure a portion of it which Is to be seen to this day in ono one of tile the kew museums but a more practical fame the tree for it Is with it that the syrian forests will probably be rehabilitated in the bright era which Is daN dawning ining now that the turk no longer ru rules lea the land hind |