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passed us to the number of fifty or more. We began to 

 wonder if they were students. The only argument against 

 the belief was the appearance of maturity and age of the 

 passers. On reaching the grounds we met the professor 

 of horticulture, and about the first inquiry was : Are the 

 men who have been passing us in such numbers students? 

 ' Yes, they are students, but of a special character. They 

 are teachers of our public schools taking lectures and 

 practice here with a view to fitting themselves for the 

 better fulfillment of their duties as teachers in the public 

 schools.' Perhaps we cannot reach this condition of 

 things at once, but a commencement should be made 

 now." 



TREES FOR BEAUTY AND SERVICE. 



BY JOHN WBAGG, WAUKEE, IOWA. 



I notice with great satisfaction the growing popularity 

 of Arbor Day, a day legally set apart by our legislative 

 Solons for planting trees to protect and adorn our homes, 

 cemeteries, public school grounds, and all places which we 

 would render attractive a day which shall be a bright 

 break in the hurry and push of our busy American life, 

 and be to our people what " May Day " was to the youth 

 of "Merrie England" in the days of "Queen Bess," but 

 with a deeper significance ; for on future Arbor Days those 



