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of honor. The University of Washington, at Seattle, 
worked out plans for an arboretum to take the form of a 
memorial park, traversed by memorial avenues. In this 
elaborate undertaking the authorities are planning for a 
century ahead, and there is vivid appeal to the imagination 
in the future beauty of this living memorial in the great 
Northwest. 
On the grounds of the State Masonic Home at Eliza¬ 
bethtown, the Masons of Pennsylvania have established 
a memorial grove containing 264 trees. Each tree is 
registered in the name of a Mason who died in the service 
of the flag, and the roster is an impressive showing of the 
patriotism of the splendid organization. 
When the Children of the American Revolution met 
in Washington, they planted a memorial tree in front of the 
D. A. R. building to mark the date. In the shape of a 
five pointed star of trees, the State Normal School at 
Bloomsburg, Pa., honored its graduates. To mark the 
centennial of the birth of Clara Barton and of Gen. U. S. 
Grant memorial trees were planted. In the latter case the 
tree was placed at Grant’s Tomb in New York City, having 
been sent from the Grant Farm near St. Louis, Mo. 
The fiftieth anniversary of the first Arbor Day in 
Nebraska, in 1872, called out thousands of new tree 
planters. Many of these trees were placed in honor of 
J. Sterling Morton, the father of Arbor Day. In front of the 
American Tree Association’s headquarters are three trees 
planted for Morton by the Nebraska Society. Another 
was placed by the District of Columbia Federation of 
Women’s Clubs on the Lincoln Memorial Grounds. 
To mark the conference of the Pan-American Women 
an International tree was planted on the grounds of the 
Pan-American Building, Washington, D. C. 
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