CAMPAIGN SPEECHES FOR THE NATIONAL TREE 127 



If you want a thoroughly enjoyable spring nature unit start a 

 campaign for the national tree. It will take about two months to 

 do it well. List your local tree candidates; study them in the 

 open, historically, commercially. Put your speakers on the stump. 

 Ask one of the leading papers of your community to print the ballot 

 and send your returns to the American Forestry Association, 12 14 

 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D. C. Interest in trees and their 

 conservation is slow in growth. This is strictly an educational 

 campaign to quicken this growth and well worth the science or 

 nature-study teachers' best effort. 



The American Forestry Association is taking a nation-wide vote to determine 

 what shall be America's national tree. 



I vote for 



Name 



Street 



City State 



School 



Forward to the American Forestry Association, National Tree Voting Depart- 

 ment, 1214 i6th Street northwest, Washington, D. C. 



Campaign Speeches for the National Tree 



THE DOGWOOD 



Now devoid of berries and leaves, the dogwood stands before us 

 this new year of nineteen-twenty-one as a candidate for our 

 national tree. 



Our national tree should be one of great beauty. Is there a tree 

 more beautiful than the dogwood? You say the oak is more 

 stately. But can the oak boast of beautiful white flowers in the 

 spring, and dark red leaves and berries in the fall? Its flowers and 

 leaves are known and loved by every nature loving man, woman 

 and child. Trees are our main source of beauty and without beauty 

 this would be a dull, work-a-day world. The dogwood is the most 

 beautiful of all trees. The already beautiful scenery along the 

 roads of the United States, improved by the planting of dogwood 

 trees, would, fifty years from now, be the envy of all nations. 

 Artists, fully appreciating the beauty of the scene, would ])aint it 

 and these paintings would go far and near, convincing the world 

 that we are greater lovers of beauty than money. 



