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91* Sterling jHorton, 



STERLING MORTON was president 

 of the International Society of Arboricul- 

 ture, which office he held at the time of 

 his death, on April 25th, 1902. It is proper 

 that his portrait should be placed at the front of 

 this, the first number of our Magazine. Mr. 

 Morton was too well known by his countrymen 

 to need any word of commendation at our hands. 

 The best that can be said of any man may be 

 said of our former president, he was an honest 

 man. Among Americans none has done so 

 much to create a sentiment in favor of forest per- 

 petuation and the planting of trees, as the author 

 of Arbor Day. His motto, " Plant trees," will 

 be retained by this Society. Public men, after their 

 career has closed, are often soon forgotten, their 

 names remain as a Faint memory in history. Mr. 

 Morton, the politician, the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture, the editor, and as private citizen, will in a 

 few years have faded from our view, but so long 

 as a public school exists children will be taught 

 to observe the beautiful custom of annual tree- 

 planting, and the name of J. Sterling Morton 

 will be revered as the father ot Arbor Day. 



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