Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1918 — TO GROW A “BOSCOBEL OAK” [ARTICLE]

TO GROW A “BOSCOBEL OAK”

Oregon Students Plant Acorns From Tree Charles 11. Used as Hiding Place. Eugene, Ore. —Acorns from the oak tree which King Charles the second used as a hiding place from the Cromwell forces were planted on the University of Oregon campus here and are expected to produce a second “Boscobel oak.” The story is told that while Charles H. was hiding in the original Boscobel oak owls flew out, frightened by the Cromwell men, and that, the king’s pursuers, noting this, concluded that they were the first arrivals and had frightened the birds themselves, and so gave up the chase.