ARBOR DAY 45 



mind, where they will be as sure to prevail, without 

 a great deal of care and correction, as common weeds, 

 in a neglected piece of ground. 



And as it requires more pains to extirpate some 

 weeds than others, according as they are more firmly 

 fixed, more numerous, or more naturalized to the 

 soil; so those faults will be found the most difficult 

 to be suppressed which have been of the longest 

 growth, and taken the deepest root; which are more 

 predominant in number, and most congenial to 

 the constitution. 



FOR POSTERITY 



BY ALEXANDER SMITH 



A MAN does not plant a tree for himself, he plants 

 it for posterity. And, sitting idly in the sunshine, I 

 think at times of the unborn people who will, to 

 some small extent, be indebted to me. Remember 

 me kindly, ye future men and women! 



ARBOR DAY 



BY PROF. B. PICKMAN MANN, SON OF HORACE MANN 



(Extract jrom Letter) 



THE project of connecting the planting of trees 

 with the names of authors is a beautiful one, and one 

 certain to exert a beneficial influence upon the 

 children who participate in these exercises. The 



