ARBOR DA V MANUAL. 
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Specimen Programs, — Port Henry, N. Y.—Continued. 
4. My name is Arbor Vitae. I thrive in the swamps of the north and afford shelter to 
•wild animals. I am often called White Cedar, and I furnish most of the telegraph poles, 
some fence posts, railway ties and blocks for paving streets. I take a high place as an 
ornamental tree. 
5. I am called the Chestnut. All botanists of the present day agree that I am first 
cousin to the Oak. I am well known for valuable timber and a good crop of edible 
nuts. I am a great friend of the boys and girls. Sometimes naughty boys seek me 
rather than the school-room. Of course no such boys live in Port Henry. 
6. I have received the name of Tulip Tree. I am not only valuable as an ornamental 
shade tree, but I also furnish excellent timber for carriage bodies, furniture and finishing 
houses. I grow to a great size and height and have shining, queer-shaped leaves, and 
large, tulip-shaped blossoms. 
7. You may call me the Balsam Fir. I am a rather small, slender evergreen, found 
in swamps, though often cultivated as an ornament about dwellings. I arrive at my 
prime when about fourteen years old. 
8. I am known as the Willow. I live near the water and my wood is made into the 
strangest things,— artificial limbs, tooth-picks, ball clubs and gunpowder. Some of us 
are called Pussy Willows. 
O, Willow, why forever weep. 
As one who mourns an endless wrong i 
What hidden woe can lie so deep ? 
What utter grief can last so long ? 
And keep your secret 
No heart in all the world 
A sweeter grace than 
9. You see before you the Red Elm. I am well known for my durable red wood and 
mucilaginous bark and am often called Slippery Elm. 
10. I am familiar to all as the American Elm. I have been called the Queen of the 
Forest, and stand without a rival at the head of the list of ornamental deciduous-leaved 
trees. I claim this rank on account of rapid growth and the graceful and majestic beauty 
of my drooping branches. 
Let us all recite the praises of the Elm. 
Concert Recitation. 
Hail to the Elm! the brave old Elm ! 
Our last lone forest tree, 
Whose limbs outstand the lightning’s brand, 
For a brave old Elm is he ! 
For fifteen score of full-told years, 
He has borne his leafy prime, 
et he holds them well, and lives to tell 
His tale of ye olden time ! 
len hail to the Elm ! the green-topp’d Elm ! 
And long may his branches wave, 
>r a relic is he, the gnarl’d old tree, 
Of the times of the good and brave. 
11. Vocal Solo —* “ Woodman, Spare that Tree.” 
12. “ Song of the Trees,” First Grammar Department. 
13. Chorus— “ The Picnic,” by the High School.” 
The audience then repaired to the grounds outside where trees had been planted, the 
planting complete with the exception of placing of a little more earth around the roots, 
and in the following order and manner, dedicated seven trees to the perpetual honor and 
memory of so many of our beloved and honored American poets. 
The first of the trees approached, was the one chosen to be henceforth associated with 
the name of the patriotic Christian poet, John G. Whittier. 
This dedication service was very appropriate and suggestive, consisting of 
1st. A brief sketch of the poet’s life. 
2d. Singing an appropriate chorus. 
3d. Reciting ten gems from the author’s works. 
4th. Depositing earth around the tree to symbolize the whole process of planting. 
The same form of exercise was followed at each tree. 
THE WHITE ASH, DEDICATED TO JOHN G. WHITTIER. 
By'Second Primary Department. 
GEMS FROM WHITTIER: 
1. Two stanzas form “Lines for an Agricultural Exhibition;” “Give fools their 
gold,” See Index. 
2. Introductory to “The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis.” See Index. 
