102 AEBOE DAY. 



NEBRASKA CITY "DAILY PRESS" ARBOR 

 DAY EDITION. 



The Nebraska City Daily Press, deciding to issue an 

 Arbor Day edition on Nebraska Arbor Day, April 22, 

 1888, the editor, H. L. Wood, Esq., by correspondence 

 obtained expressions from prominent appreciative persons 

 in various parts of the United States, relating to the day 

 and its author. We are permitted to make extracts of the 

 following more important letters : 



~. 

 FROM JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 



DEERFOOT FARM, SOUTHBOROUGH, 



March 25, 1888. 



DEAR SIR I thank you for the opportunity you so 

 kindly offer me of uniting my thanks with those of others 

 to Mr. Morton on the 22d of April. I heartily wish all 

 our newspapers could be as usefully employed on that day. 



Our Teutonic ancestors, if they did not worship trees, at 

 least held certain species of them sacred, and made votive 

 offerings to them on certain days of the year. In this 

 vegetable hagiology the oak and the beech held the first 

 places, for the frugal reason, perhaps, that their mast fur- 

 nished a gratuitous food for swine, the chief wealth, one 

 may assume, of these dwellers in the primeval forest. If 

 the Aryan races migrated westward from Asia, they prob- 



