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The tall Pine tree at Fort Edward, New York, under which the beautiful 

 Jane McCrea was slain. 



The great Pecan tree at Villere's plantation, below New Orleans, under which 

 a portion of the remains of General Packingham was buried. 



The Pear trees planted respectively by Governor Endicott of Massachusetts, 

 and Governor Stuyvesant of New York, more than two hundred years ago, and 

 the Tulip tree on King's mountain battle-field, in South Carolina, upon which 

 ten Tory murderers were hung at one time. 



Sodus Centre, N, Y. EDWARD C. DELANO. 



THE USE OF ARBOR DAY. 



THE subject of forestry is, of course, an appropriate one for Arbor Day, if 

 there is any person available who is competent to present or discuss it. 

 Almost any time would be suitable for the intelligent treatment of this topic, if 

 people will come together to hear and consider it. It is vitally related to the 

 public welfare in a variety of ways, and serious injury to the prosperity and 

 civilization of our country is almost certain to result from the lack of sufficient 

 knowledge to enable our people justly to estimate its importance. Oratory 

 without knowledge is of little value, and will not long be found entertaining ; 

 but knowledge regarding the subjects which are appropriate for Arbor Day can 

 be acquired only as knowledge of other important subjects is acquired, by seri- 

 ous interest and application, by study and adequate observation. 



The planting of trees by a person able to use it as an object-lesson for popu- 

 lar instruction by describing the structure and functions of the various parts of 

 the tree, and their relations to each other in its life, would in many places be 

 an admirable use to make of Arbor Day. The proper care of trees and shrubs 

 in villages and along country road-sides, their economic value as related to 

 bird-life and insect-life, their influence on health, and on the interest and hap- 

 piness of human life, their value as a means of seclusion, and their effect in 

 landscape everywhere, are all good subjects for consideration on Arbor Day, if 

 they are seriously and intelligently presented. 



If a few public-spirited young men and women in every town will read the 

 new literature regarding these and similar subjects, they will soon be able to 

 supply competent direction for Arbor Day observances, and, what is more im- 

 portant, to give good counsel, and to act intelligently when questions of prun- 

 ing trees, widening streets and destroying road-sides are under discussion. 



Garden and Forest. April 17, 1889. 



Germany has made great progress in tree-planting. It was a part of the 

 national policy of Frederick the Great by which Germany was raised from a 

 small power to a great one. Where once the sandy deserts would not nourish 

 a flock of goats, vast armies have been maintained, and regiments of hardy 

 soldiers have poured forth from the fertile soil, where two hundred years ago 

 the thorn and the thistle overspread an impoverished land. 



