450 PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 



J. STERLING MORTON. 



J. Sterling Morton was president of the International Society of Arbori- 

 culture, which office he held at the time of his death, on April 25, 1902. 

 Mr. Morton was too well known by his countrymen to need any word 

 of commendation at our hands. The best that can be said of any man 

 may be said of our former president, he was an honest man. Among 

 Americans none has done so much to create a sentiment in favor of forest 

 perpetuation and the planting of trees, as the author of Arbor Day. His 

 motto, "Plant trees," will be retained by this society. Public men. after their 

 career has closed, are often soon forgotten, their names remain as a faint mem- 

 ory in history. Mr. Morton, the politician, the Secretary of Agriculture, the 

 editor, and as private citizen, will in a few years have faded from our view, 

 but so long as a public school exists children will be taught to observe the 

 beautiful custom of annual tree-planting, and the name of J. Sterling Morton 

 will be revered as the father of Arbor Day, 



