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learning, as the Normal School and State University, 

 addresses are delivered by eminent men and listened to 

 by the students and faculty. On the campus the various 

 classes engage in planting commemorative trees, make 

 speeches, and recite original poems. 



WHAT TO PLANT IN NEBRASKA. 

 BY PKTEE YOUNGER, JR., GENEVA, NEB. 



Arbor Day is' duly observed in Nebraska ; thousands 

 of trees are planted by school children, and in some local- 

 ities there is quite a strife to see who can plant the greatest 

 number. As many are inexperienced in tree planting, the 

 question naturally arises, " What shall we plant, and how ?" 

 The first question can be answered by finding qut what 

 kind of trees are native to your locality. Nature is a safe 

 guide, and by planting trees suited to the locality many 

 failures will be avoided ; yet we have trees, not native, 

 doing apparently as well as those which are. 



" How TO PLANT" is a rather difficult question to 

 answer, as nearly every planter has a different mode. Our 

 method of planting forest tree seedlings, for groves, wind- 

 breaks, and timber claims, the trees ranging from five to 

 thirty inches in height, is as follows : The ground is first 

 plowed as deeply as possible, then thoroughly harrowed 

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