36 POREST FiRKS AND THEIR PrEVE>-TION. 



4. Prayer (to be recited in coiieert). 



5. Music Orcliestra 



6. Class Exercise, Telling' About Arlx)r Day. 



(a) What is Arbor Day? 



(6) Tell sonietliinji; of the origin of Arbor Day. 



(c) Why do we observe Arbor Day? 



(d) Why do you name your trees for some celebrated person? 



(e) How are books and trees related? 



(/) Tell me something about tree religion. 



(</) What about trees as living things? 



( /; ) ^^■hy should the forests be preserved ? 



((I What do we get from the forests? 



I j I "^ ou haven't told me anything about flowers. 



(A) What trees do you think the best for school grounds? 



( / ) Tell me how to jilant a tree, size, etc. 



7. Some Things said About Ohscrvinu- Arbor Day. 



8. Song of Dedication. 



9. Reading — The Tree of the Field is Man's Life. 



10. Reading— The Talk of a Tree. 



11. Music Orche>tra 



12. Recitation — Selections from Bryant, Irving, Emerson, and others. 



13. Recitation — Resolution Protesting Against the Destruction of Trees. 



14. Exercise — The Arbor Day Queen. 



15. Reading Letters About Arbor Day from Distiiiguislied North Carolinians. 

 10. Recitation — The Woodman and the Tree. 



17. Music Orcliestra 



18. Song — The Chorus of the Flowers. 



19. Acrostic — Arbor Day. 



20. Song — Love of Nature. 



21. March — Washington Post. 



22. Exercises at the Tree. 



(Pupils from each schoolroom march, to ihc school grounds, fire of the 

 class carrying spades, the liandlcs being decorated with school 

 colors — ichite and orange — and form a circle around the spot where 

 the tree is to be planted.) 



(a) Placing the tree in position. 



ib) Tree planting Song. 



(c) A brief statement by the teaclier concerning the persim to whom the 

 tree is dedicated. 



(d) Recital of quotations from writings of persons thus honored. 



(e) Pupils place the soil around the tree with their spades. 

 if) Marcli to class room. 



Recently the Forester of the North Carolina Geological and Economic 

 Survey Avas invited to make an address at an Arbor Day celebration at 

 Southern Pines, in which the whole town took a gratifying interest. 

 The Civic Club, an organization of the women of the place, was the 

 prime mover, while the teachers and the school children united with 

 the club to make the occasion a great success. Trees and shrubs Avere 



