ARBOR DAY. 83 



It is little known in this country, and has not received 

 the attention it deserves. One reason is, that it is difficult 

 to produce trees large enough for street planting in less 

 than four or five years. Nurserymen prefer trees of more 

 rapid growth. As its value becomes better known and 

 the demand for it increases, nurserymen will give more 

 attention to its propagation. Other maples are sometimes 

 supplied to those who are unacquainted with the Norway 

 maple. We bought a lot a few years ago claimed to be 

 Norway maple, but on comparing them found them very 

 different from our European importations, freezing down 

 to the snow line every cold winter. 



IDAHO ARBOR DAY. 

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 The recent legislature enacted by statute: "That the 



last Monday in April in each year is set apart for and 

 declared to be a legal holiday in Idaho territory, to be 

 known as Arbor Day, so declared for the purpose of en- 

 couraging the planting and setting out of trees in said 

 territory." Steps are being taken by the schools for its 

 proper observance, and the children will be encouraged to 

 take part in the exercises. The rapid, and too often wan- 

 ton destruction of large tracts of timber in former years 

 has already produced disastrous results in the valleys of 

 Idaho, and the snow melting from the mountains goes off 



