ARBOR DAY. 95 



NOTES ON ARBOR DAY IN MICHIGAN. 



WHERE, HOW, AND WHAT TO PLANT. 

 BY PEOF. L. H. BAILEY, AGBICULTUBAL COLLEGE, MICH. 



The tree or bush which is planted by the child should 

 remain as a memorial of the child's effort. The young 

 mind becomes attached to the plant as a property pecu- 

 liarly its own, and the early love and interest is likely to 

 remain, to some extent, through life. But here we are met 

 with a serious question : If Arbor Day is to return each 

 year, and each person is annually to set a tree which shall 

 remain until it dies, where can places be found to plant all 

 the trees ? Already, in states which inaugurated Arbor 

 Day some years ago, there are door-yards and school 

 grounds overfull of trees. A few suggestions may be 

 helpful in this connection : Do not plant too thickly in 

 the home grounds ! Thick planting is an evil which few 

 people appear to comprehend. Trees which are crowded 

 not only lose their own beauty and destroy the symmetry 

 of neighboring trees, but they produce about residences a 

 shade so dense as to be unhealthful. The persons are 

 few who possess sufficient courage to remove large trees, 

 even though fully aware that the trees are useless and 

 injurious. Forty feet is very close for trees of large species 

 which are to be grown for the beauty of the individual 

 specimen. 



