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diviners told him that they who planted trees lived long." 

 Let me hope that this may prove true in the case of Mr. 

 Morton. Faithfully yours, 



J. K. LOWELL. 



MB. H. L. WOOD, 



Nebraska City, Neb. 



FROM GEORGE H. BOKER. 



PHILADELPHIA, April 11, 1888. 



DEAR MR. WOOD It would be impossible in a brief 

 note to do justice to the service rendered to the country, 

 particularly to the great West, by the Hon. J. Sterling 

 Morton, in suggesting and putting into practical operation 

 the systematic planting of trees on the day to which he 

 gave the happy title of " Arbor Day." How strongly the 

 movement commended itself to the popular sense has been 

 proven by the fact that since Mr. Morton made his motion 

 in Nebraska, almost every other state in the Union has 

 appointed a day for the same purpose. 



Nor has " Arbor Day " been a mere sentimental dedica- 

 tion. Mr. Morton's recommendation has been put into 

 practice on every hand. Even in this city, among people 

 who live upon bricks and stones, and therefore have but 

 dim rural ideas, on " Arbor Day " crowds of our citizens 

 may be seen thronging into our park, saplings in hand, for 

 the purpose of supplying its unshaded places with what, in 



