A NEW HOLIDAY 7 



Let us hope also that Arbor Day will teach the 

 children, under the wise guidance of experts, that 

 trees are to be planted with intelligence and care, 

 if they are to become more vigorous and beautiful. 

 A sapling is not to be cut into a bean-pole, but 

 carefully trimmed in accordance with its form. A 

 tree which has lost its head will never recover again, 

 and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance 

 and folly of its tormentor. Indeed, one of the hap- 

 piest results of the new holiday will be the increase 

 of knowledge which springs from personal interest 

 in trees. 



This will be greatly promoted by naming those 

 which are planted on Arbor Day. The interest of 

 children in pet animals, in dogs, squirrels, rabbits, 

 cats, and ponies, springs largely from their life and 

 their dependence upon human care. When the 

 young tree also is regarded as living and equally 

 dependent upon intelligent attention, when it is 

 named by votes of the scholars-, and planted by them 

 with music and pretty ceremony, it will also become a 

 pet, and a human relation will be established. If 

 it be named for a living man or woman, it is a living 

 memorial and a perpetual admonition to him whose 

 name it bears not to suffer his namesake tree to 

 outstrip him, and to remember that a man, like a 

 tree, is known by his fruits. 



Trees will acquire a new charm for intelligent 

 children when they associate them with famous 



