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are real friends to those who know them. 
“Junior Trees” planting is an educational 
project for young people so that they may 
learn to know their trees as do their elders: 
an invitation to know trees, talk to them, 
call them by hame instantly and know their 
bark and their color, their leaves, their 
architecture and beauty in the landscape. 
Real spiritual values come te those who 
know trees. The poets know best how to 
express real appreciation of trees as “only 
God can make a tree”. 
George Washington’s love for beauty in 
trees led him to plant and experiment with 
many different kinds. He held a profound 
knowledge of tree habits; he was able to 
balance their moods and their characteris- 
tics were an open book to him. His greatest 
dreams, his most cherished plans were 
never without a background of trees. When 
he handed down to his countrymen beauti- 
fulful Mount Vernon, no small part of its 
glory was in its trees many ef which this 
first American planted himself. 
In his diaries Washington very often 
made mention of trees or his profound in- 
terest in them. From 1760 to 1788 more 
than ten thousand werds were given to re- 
cord tree plantings, observations of tree 
habits and growth and his experience with 
them. In fact, a study of these records re- 
veals not only one of the earliest, but one 
