ARBOR DAY AID 



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was a busy day for all concerned, but most of all for the Secre- 

 tary of the Shade Tree Commission, whose faith in the educa- 

 tion of future citizens by every means in his power, never wavers. 

 In the field, the foremen's amused faces on the day set for plant- 

 ing, as the children's little feet stamped the earth vigorously in 



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"With the school boys and girls making a census of the trees of their 

 home blocks, it will not be long before each maple and elm, oak and lin- 

 den, will have its name and address in the City Tree Directory and New- 

 ark will have a list of which it may well be proud." 



(From Shade Tree Commission's Arbor Day Leaflet, 1908.) 



their attempt to pack it firmly around the roots, showed that 

 the men, too, were in harmony with the scheme. 



It is safe to say that no Shade Tree Commission in the 

 United States has carried on the campaign of education more 

 systematically and generously in addition to all of its regular 

 work than this Commission of the manufacturing town of New- 

 ark, New Jersey. 



