Trees

The famous 'Wishing Tree,' the only tree of its kind in the world, made of over 1,000 'wish bones' of various fowl consumed by the family during the past 50 years. Harry Kleine is standing by the tree.

Exterior of the Harry S. Truman Library.

Palm Trees, Florida Keys photograph by Harry James Mitchell. Original is oversize.

Palm Trees, Key West photograph taken in Key West, Florida by Harry James Mitchell. Original is oversize.

Washington Elm on Capitol Grounds, Washington, D.C.. The tree was supposed to have been planted by George Washington.

This is a view of fallen branches from a tree laying on a sidewalk.

U.S. Forest Chief Lyle F. Watts at George Walton Experimental Forest in Cordele, Georgia. This was the "Pine Valley Plantation" in Lot 131 planted with slash pine (6 feet x 8 feet spacing) from Albany State Nursery in the spring of 1946. The sign reads: "Slash Pine; planted 1926; spaced 6 x 8."

U.S. Forest Chief Lyle F. Watts, 5th from left, with unidentified others examine a slash pine tree planted sixteen years earlier which at the time of the photo measured 14 inch d.b.h. (diameter at breast height) at Cooperator Walton's Experimental "Stephens Plantation" in Cordele, Georgia. See also photo 2009-3625.

U.S. Forest Chief Lyle F. Watts, center with billed cap, and unidentified others in a in Cooperator Walton's experimental "Stephens Plantation" of 127 acres planted 15 feet by 15 feet with native slash pine stock in the Spring of 1936 in Cordele, Georgia. See also photo 2009- 3626.

A peculiar tree with four leaders in the snow covered Wasatch National Forest in Utah.