42 ARBOR DAY 



In love of home and loyalty 



And far-cast thought of civic good 

 His blessings on the neighborhood, 

 Who in the hollow of His hand 

 Holds all the growth of all our land 

 A nation's growth from sea to sea 

 Stirs in his heart who plants a tree. 



THE SPIRIT OF ARBOR DAY 



BY FRANK A. HILL 



THE spirit of Arbor Day is that of a deep love for 

 trees a love that includes their beauty on the one 

 hand and their service on the other. This love has 

 a thousand aspects and a thousand degrees, for the 

 beauty and the service that call it forth are as varied 

 as the trees that grow and the needs of earth 

 and man to which they so admirably minister. 

 There is the beauty of the stately pine, the rugged 

 oak, the graceful elm. There is the service of the 

 fragrant eucalyptus that brings health to the deadly 

 Campagna, of the versatile palm that makes habit- 

 able the waste places of the tropical belt, of the humid 

 forest that holds back the waters of the rainy season 

 to bless the dry that follows after. The problems 

 of the trees are also without number. There is the 

 problem of the East to save its forests where now 

 they abound. There is the problem of the West 



