

Compiled Under the Direction of 



THE SUPERINTENDENT OP PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 

 BY LAWRENCE E. CHENOWETH. 



N THE following pages you will find set forth ideas 

 culled from various articles that have come to hand 

 from time to time welded together with personal 

 ideas and experiences, and combined into, we hope, 

 an harmonious whole, which may be of assistance in 

 promoting what is bound to prove of vital importance 

 to the children of this broad land Arbor Day. 



Arbor Day provides the occasion for speaking 

 about a great idea and for doing some things about it 

 in all the schools. It is easy enough both in the 



cities and the country for the teacher to tell the children what Arbor 



Day signifies, and to hear what the children think about it. School 



exercises, with readings and recitations, do much to give meaning to 



the day. It is harder to DO things than to 



talk about them. Yet it is not difficult to 



clear up school grounds and plant new trees. 



If the children can be waked up they will 



find that their interest in trees and flowers 



and animals will grow larger and larger as 



they grow larger and larger themselves. 



They will think of things that never oc- 

 curred to them before, things that will make 



them better citizens and more successful 



men and women. In every school in the 



state there should be set apart a day to be 



used to create a new love of nature in the 



teacher and the children, and to do some- 



thing which for a long time will express that new interest in the subject. 



A barren schoolroom, a barren school yard can produce naught save 



a barren-hearted pupil, insensible to that refining influence so neces- 



