CONTENTS 



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ARBOR DAY LETTER .... 'Theodore Roosevelt v 



PREFACE vii 



INTRODUCTION ix 



I 

 HISTORY AND OBSERVANCE 



A NEW HOLIDAY .... George William Curtis 3 



ARBOR DAY Nicholas Jar chow 9 



ARBOR DAY IN SCHOOLS ... B. G. Northrup 12 



ARBOR DAY'S OBSERVANCE . . . . A. S. Draper 17 



A HYMN FOR ARBOR DAY . . Henry Hanby Hay 18 



ARBOR DAY Anonymous 19 



HE WHO PLANTS AN OAK . . . Washington Irving 20 

 THE PLANTING OF THE APPLE-TREE 



William Cullen Bryant 21 



TREE PLANTING . . . Oliver Wendell Holmes 24 

 THE CELEBRATION OF ARBOR DAY 



Moncure D. Conivay 25 



SPRING CLEANING Samuel Walter Foss 26 



A UNIQUE CELEBRATION 28 



ARBOR DAY SONG Mary A. Heermans 29 



CELEBRATING ARBOR DAY . . . Walter E. Ranger 30 



WHAT Do You SEE ? 32 



AN ARBOR DAY TREE 35 



WHEN WE PLANT A TREE . Oliver Wendell Holmes 36 



PLANT A TREE Lucy Larcom 36 



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