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Describe the following apples so they can be recognized by 

 people not acquainted with them: York Imperial, Winesap, 

 Stayman Winesap, Grimes' Golden, Ben Davis. 



Speak of the advantages and disadvantages of a fruit tree being 

 the national tree. 



The apple lessons were particularly delightful to city children who 

 had never thought of apples by name, or difference in eating qualities. 



As this educational campaign progressed, the interest of the 

 children led them to make articles in miniature showing the use of 

 oak, pine, hickory, hard maple, walnut, etc., photographs and 

 diagrams of street planting in the vicinity of the schools; brush 

 sketches in ink of trees suggesting devices for their use on coins and 

 government letter heads ; historical events connected with the elm 

 modelled in clay. So much material had been gathered that when, 

 near the close of the campaign, the American Forestry Association 

 asked that a greater number of children than the eighth grades be 

 granted the voting privilege, an exhibition for the education of the 

 new voters was quickly and easily arranged. The children were 

 asked to place on large mounting cards material that would illus- 

 trate their choice for the national tree. These charts were exhibited 

 at the Wilson Normal School for four days before the vote was 

 taken and the public asked to use them as a means of education and 

 then vote. Thousands of people visited the exhibit, boys and men 

 in great numbers. The interest shown warranted extending the 

 exhibit three days. 



Three minute speeches on the value of the tree candidates as a 

 national tree were delivered by the children of the eighth grades to 

 the children of the grades below and to the visitors at the exhibi- 

 tion. The American boy or girl feels his country's call deeply, be 

 it a call for war service or a call to vote for the national tree. 

 Speakers in the recent presidential campaign did not take them- 

 selves more seriously then these youthful speakers. The speeches 

 were earnest, sometimes poetic, full of patriotic appeal to vote for a 

 truly American tree and, best of all, a determination that the voters 

 should know reasons for their choice. It was not always the boy 

 who spoke "longest and loudest," as one boy expressed it, who 

 carried his audience, but the boy who clearly and logically made 

 his points. i8,ooo votes were cast, 7,037 for the oak, but no 

 figures can measure the interest in trees and their conservation 

 that has spread through the homes of the city. 



