30 ARBOR DAY 



So we, Thy children dear, 

 Would live from year to year, 

 Show forth Thy goodness here, 

 And then above. 



CELEBRATING ARBOR DAY 



BY WALTER E. RANGER 



From Rhode Island Arbor Day Annual, 1907 

 BY AN excursion into the woods pupils may learn, 

 under the direction of their teacher, to identify the 

 most common kinds of trees and gain a more inti- 

 mate acquaintance with trees. Such an excursion, 

 when practicable, would not be an unfitting feature 

 of Arbor Day observance, and would not necessarily 

 preclude other customary exercises both within and 

 without the schoolroom. 



The State Forester has made the following inter- 

 esting suggestion: "It would seem to me expedient 

 for some of the schools to reserve a shaded corner 

 of the grounds for a small forest nursery a bed 

 about four feet wide and any convenient length 

 in which to raise nursery stock for planting shade 

 and forest trees on Arbor Day. Such a nursery 

 could be started on Arbor Day by putting into this 

 bed some tiny seedlings such as may be found at 

 that time under some of the mature trees of beech, 

 maple, oak, ash, pine, and chestnut. Later the 



