40 LUTHER BURBANK AND HIS PLANT SCHOOL 



the boys and girls know and appreciate his love for trees 

 and birds is shown by the following pledge, signed by the 

 four hundred children of one of the Santa Rosa schools, 

 and presented to him on his sixty-second birthday: 



"To-day, as a part of our Arbor Day exercises and in 

 honor of one, who is, we know, a sincere friend of birds 

 and trees, we pledge ourselves to befriend all of God's 

 creatures, to protect the birds, and not to maliciously de- 

 stroy trees or any of the other beauties of Nature." 



