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healthful the year round. I have given hundreds of 

 trees to schools and churches, but many have not cared 

 for them, and lost them. My own home is sheltered 

 by 3,000 evergreens, from thirty to forty feet high, and 

 I am confident they have paid for themselves this winter, 

 and have done the same for many winters past. 



ARBOR WEEK VS. ARBOR DAY. 

 BY G. B. BRACKKTT, DENMABK, IOWA. 



Iowa was one of the foremost states in the Union for 

 setting apart a day for general tree planting. In the act 

 of our general assembly appropriating $1,000 to the State 

 Horticultural Society it was made incumbent on them 

 to award annually the sum of $200 in premiums for the 

 encouragement of forest tree planting. After carefully 

 considering the subject with a view to encouraging as many 

 as many as possible to compete for the premiums, it was 

 decided to appoint a special day for planting throughout 

 the state, designated as Arbor Day. Accordingly the 

 society fixed the 20th day of April, 1874, as such day. 

 But very unfortunately, our initial Arbor Day proved to 

 be the most unpropitious day of the season, consequently 

 tree planting on this day was nearly a failure, and since 

 then Arbor Day has not been very strictly observed, every 



