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ARBOR DA Y MANUAL. 



NEW YORK STATE PROGRAM, 1889. 



6. READING OR DECLAMATION. 



7. SONG. 



8. ADDRESS." Our School-houses and our Homes, How to beautify them." 

 NOTE. Any other appropriate subject may be selected. 



9. SONG. 



10. BRIEF ESSAYS. By different scholars. 



First scholar may choose for subject, " My Favorite Tree is the Oak," and give reasons. Other scholars 

 may follow, taking for subjects the Elm, Maple, Beech, Birch, Ash, etc. These essays should be very short. 



11. SONG. 



12. VOTING ON THE QUESTION. " What is the Favorite State Tree." 



13. READING OR RECITATION. 



14. SONG. 



15. ORGANIZATION OF LOCAL " Shade-Tree Planting Association." (See Suggestions under 



this head elsewhere.) 



NOTK. The scholars should at least appoint a committee to serve for a year to see that trees planted are 

 properly cared for. 

 15. SONG. America. 



PROGRAM AT THE TREE. 



Suggestions : Arriving at the place designated for the planting of a tree, every thing should be found 

 in readiness by previous preparation, in order that there may be no delay. By arrangement, the tree 

 should be dedicated to some particular person as may have been decided. It would be well to have printed 

 or painted on tin or wood, and attached to the tree, the name of the person to whom it is dedicated. 



After a marching song has been sung on the way to the tree, the following order of exercises is suggested : 

 i. PLACE THE TREE CAREFULLY IN POSITION. (See 5, below.) 



NOTE. When advisable, the tree may be placed in position in advance of the exercises. 

 3. SONG. 



3. A brief statement by the teacher or another concerning the person to whom the tree is 



dedicated. 



4. When practicable recital of quotations from the writings of the person thus honored. 



5. Let each pupil in the class, or such as may be designated, deposit a spadeful of earth. 



6. SONG. 



NOTE. Where impracticable to plant trees, shrubs, vines or flowers may be substituted. A flower bed 

 may be laid out, and vines set in or seeds planted. 



SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS. 



And God said let the earth bring forth the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind; and the earth brought 

 forth the tree yielding fruit; and God saw that it was good. Artd out of the ground made the Lord God to 

 grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. 



And Abraham said to the three angels : " Rest yourselves under the tree; " and he stood by them under 

 the tree, and they did eat. 



The tree of the field is man's life. Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the Lord; 

 then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord. The trees of the Lord are full of sap, the cedars 

 of Lebanon which He hath planted; where the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir trees are her 

 house. 



Blessed is the man whose delight is in the law of the Lord ; he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of 

 water that bringeth forth its fruit in due season; his leaf shall not wither ; and whatsoever he doeth shall 

 prosper. 



Of Wisdom, the wise man saith : She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, and happy is every 

 one that retaineth her. And again, the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life ; while Hope deferred niaketh 

 the heart sick, when the desire cometh it is a tree of life; and a wholesome tongue is a tree of life. 



And the angel carried me away in the spint, and showed me that great city, the New Jerusalem ; in the 

 midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river was there the tree of life which bear twelve manner 

 of fruits, and yielded its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 

 And he said: To him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the Para- 

 dise of God. 



