Arbor day and library evening, April 26, 1895 . The leaves are somewhat heart-shaped and generally glossy. Theflowers are mostly white and shades of pink and red. When thegrowth is luxuriant it is poly-petalous. The weather it likes best is thesoft, cloudy atmosphere f)f sorrow, sickness and suffering; yet it is inbloom on many festival occasions and crowns all the best days of ourlives with the millennial fragrance of Paradise. LOUISE M. FULLER. The Arbor Day Tree. Now a strong, fair shoot, from the forest bring, Gently the roots in the soft earth lay;God bless with His sunshine, and wind and
Arbor day and library evening, April 26, 1895 . The leaves are somewhat heart-shaped and generally glossy. Theflowers are mostly white and shades of pink and red. When thegrowth is luxuriant it is poly-petalous. The weather it likes best is thesoft, cloudy atmosphere f)f sorrow, sickness and suffering; yet it is inbloom on many festival occasions and crowns all the best days of ourlives with the millennial fragrance of Paradise. LOUISE M. FULLER. The Arbor Day Tree. Now a strong, fair shoot, from the forest bring, Gently the roots in the soft earth lay;God bless with His sunshine, and wind and rain. The tree we are planting on Arbor Day. May it greenly grow for a hundred years; And our childrens children beneath it the fruit and rest in the shade Of the trees we are planting on Arbor Day. So may our life be an upward growth. In wisdoms soil every rootlet lay,And every tree bearing precious fruit, Like the tree we are planting on Arbor Day. Song.—Near in the Forest.—Page 102. RELATIONS OF TREES. RELATIONS OP NELSON HAAS, Ph. D.,Hackensack High School. Recitations selected from A Year Among the Trees, by permissionof the publishers: Forms and Expression : The differ-ent Ibrms of trees, and their endlessvariety of foliage and spray, have,fromthe earliest times, been favorite studiesof the painter and the naturalist. ThePsalmist compares a godly man to atree that is planted by rivers of water,whose leaf shall not wither—seeing inthe stateliness and beauty of such atree an emblem of the noble virtues ofthe human heart. The beauty of treesis something that exists chiefly in ourimagination. We admire them fortheir evident adaptation to purposes ofshade and shelter. Some of them weregard as symbols or images of a finepoetic sentiment. Such are the slenderwillows and poplars, that remind usof grace and refinement, becomingthe emblems of some agreeable moralaffection, or the embodiment of somestriking metaphor. Thus Coleridge personifies the white bi
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