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hundredth part of this sum been spent annually in planting 

 trees and adorning the school grounds, a still better result 

 would have been accomplished in cultivating the taste of our 

 youth, leading them to study and admire our noble trees, and 

 realize that they are the grandest and most beautiful products 

 of nature and form the finest drapery that adorns this earth in 

 all lands. Thus taught, they will wish to plant and protect 

 trees, and find in their own happy experience that there is a 

 peculiar pleasure in their parentage, whether forest, fruit or 

 ornamental a pleasure that never cloys, but grows with their 

 growth. Such offspring they will watch with pride, as every 

 year new beauties appear. Like grateful children, they bring 

 rich filial returns and compensate a thousand-fold for the trou- 

 ble they cost. This love of trees early implanted in the school 

 and fostered in the home, will be sure to make our youth prac- 

 tical arborists. They should learn that trees have been the ad- 

 miration of the greatest and best men in all ages. The ancients 

 understood well the beauty and hygienic value of trees. The 

 Hebrews almost venerated the Palm. It was the chosen sym- 

 bol of Judea on their coins and graven on the doors of the 

 temple as the sacred sign of justice. The Cedar of Lebanon 

 was the pride of the Jews and became to them the emblem 

 of strength and beauty as is seen in Ezekiel's description of a 

 Cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and with a shadowing 

 shroud and of a high stature and his top was among the thick 

 boughs. The height was exalted above all the trees of the 

 field and his boughs were multiplied and his branches became 

 long. Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his 

 branches, nor any tree in the garden of God like unto him in 

 beauty. 



The Egyptians, Greeks and Eomans were proficients in tree 

 planting. Hence Thebes, Memphis, Athens, Carthage, Kome, 

 Pompeii and Herculaneum, as their very ruins still show, had 

 each their shaded streets or parks. Two thousand years ago, 

 it was the ambition of the richest Eomans to maintain a rural 

 home in or near the city as it is of the wealthy Londoner, 

 Viennese, or Berliner to-day, and their ancient villas were most 

 lavishly adorned. The Paradise of the Persians was filled with 

 blossoming trees and long lines of roses. This taste for beauti- 



