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ents, I submit the following words of warning : Don't 

 plant fruit or nut bearing trees in the school yard ! Don't 

 plant too many strong growers, or too large a proportion 

 of evergreens in the cemetery ! Don't plant too near the 

 house ! Don't plant too closely by the roadside ! Don't 

 plant the soft maple if better trees can be procured ! 



ARBOR DAY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. 

 BY JABEZ WEBSTER, CENTKALIA, ILL. 



I am proud of the fact that we, too, in Illinois are to 

 have an Arbor Day. Besides the sentimental phase of the 

 question the singing of birds in the lofty tree-tops, the 

 grateful shelter and protection to man and beast in winter, 

 and the refreshing shade in summer there is a grander 

 and more widely-reaching principle in the planting and the 

 caring for trees. I well remember the exquisite pleasure 

 afforded me after a twenty years' absence from my native 

 home, by seeing a tree planted in my boyhood nearly forty 

 years before. I asked an American traveler on an ocean 

 steamship returning from a trip to Europe, what feature 

 of the older countries made the most pleasant and lasting 

 impression on him. He replied : "The love of the people, 

 rich and poor, for the beautiful in nature. The love for 

 beautiful trees and flowers, both in public and private, as 

 exhibited by the humble cottager and around the village 



