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as it is more confusing than helpful to the inexperienced. 

 Arbor Day has done much for Indiana, and we hope to 

 see it do much more. List of trees : Sugar maple, silver 

 or soft maple, elm, ash, catalpa speciosa, linden or bass- 

 wood, black walnut, poplar, or tulip trees. Evergreens : 

 Norway spruce, hemlock, white, Scotch, and Austrian 

 pines, and American arbor vitse. The Carolina poplar is 

 quite extensively planted as a shade tree. 



BY H. S. STINE, BUENETT'S CREEK, IND. 



NORTH-WEST. For Arbor Day, and especially for trees 

 for school-house yards, etc., I would recommend the fol- 

 lowing, taking into consideration hardiness, symmetry, 

 and cleanliness of foliage, viz.: The sugar maple, white 

 ash, black walnut, black locust, sycamore, soft maple, 

 and Russian mulberry. 



ARBOR DAY IN DAKOTA. 



Great interest is being taken in Arbor Day in Dakota, 

 and it will be almost universally observed. This is not 

 to be wondered at, as no section will derive more benefit 

 from the planting of trees. The Arbor Day committee, 

 appointed at the December meeting of the Dakota Horti- 

 cultural Society, recommended Wednesday, April 25, as 

 Arbor Day for that part of the territory lying south of 



