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ARBOR DA V MANUAL. 
ARBOR DAY. 
T REE planting on Arbor Day, for economic purposes in the great West, has 
given to the prairie States many thousand acres of new forests, and in¬ 
spired the people with a sense of their great value, not only for economic 
purposes, but for climatic and meteorological purposes as well. The cele¬ 
bration of Arbor Day by the public schools in several of the older States by 
the planting of memorial trees, as originated at Cincinnati in the spring of 
1882, and generally known as the “Cincinnati plan,” has done much also to 
awaken a widespread interest in the study of trees ; and this annual celebration 
promises to become as general in the public schools and among the people as 
the observance of May day in England. “Whatever you would have appear in 
the Nation’s life you must introduce into the public schools.” Train the youth 
into a love for trees, instruct them in the elements of forestry, and the wisdom 
of this old German proverb will be realized. 
Warren Higley, 1885. 
The trees which the children plant, or which they assist in dedicating, will 
become dearer to them as year after year rolls on. As the trees grow, and their 
branches expand in beauty, so will the love for them increase in the hearts of 
those by whom they were planted or dedicated, and long before the children 
reach old age they will almost venerate these green and living memorials of 
youthful and happy days; and as those who have loved and cared for pets will 
ever be the friends of our dumb animals, so will they ever be the friends of our 
forest trees. From the individual to the general, is the law of our nature. 
Show us a man who in childhood had a pet, and we’ll show you a lover of 
animals. Show us a person who in youth planted a tree that has lived and 
flourished, and we ’ll show you a friend of trees and of forest culture. 
John B. Peaslee. 
FOREST SILENCE. 
T HERE is a soft green darkness ’round 
Wherein the noon sleeps hushed and still, 
Only a little hidden rill 
Moves murmuring through mossy ground ; 
The doves are silent, and the bees 
Hum here no more ; the green branched trees 
Are moveless in the windless air, 
And silence broodeth everywhere. 
Harper s Magazine, September , 1884. 
“Large streams from little fountains flow 
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.” 
