ARBOR DAY. 101 



would recommend scarlet maple, oriental plane, and Caro- 

 lina poplar. 



SETTING GOOD EXAMPLES. 



EACH ILLINOIS STATE OFFICER WILL PLANT A TREE ox ARBOR 



DAY. 



The state officers have concluded to give Arbor Day a 

 little boom, and each of them will set out a tree about the 

 state house grounds. Gov. Oglesby will plant an elm, 

 getting the tree and digging the hole himself. Secretary 

 of State Dement will plant an elm ; State Superintendent 

 Edwards and Attorney-General Hunt each a hard maple ; 

 Supreme Court Clerk Snively an old hickory; State 

 Treasurer Tanner a sycamore from the Wabash ; Auditor 

 Swigert a larch ; Dr. Wines, secretary of the state board 

 of charities, an elm; Appellate Court Clerk Jones, an 

 elm; Adjutant-General Vance a larch; Supreme Court 

 Reporter Freeman, a hard maple ; Secretary Lord, of the 

 board of labor statistics, and Dr. Rauch, of the state board 

 of health, each an elm; and C. F. Mills, secretary of 

 the state board of agriculture, a box-elder. 



