. Louisiana special days. Programs and suggestions for observing the same. Session 1909-10. , under which theapostle John Elliot taught the Indians Christianity. The Ash and Tulip trees planted at Mount Vernon by Wash-ington. The Elm tree planted by General Grant on the Capitolgrounds at Washington. The Treaty Elm tree at Philadelphia, under which WilliamPenn made his famous treaty with nineteen tribes of bar-barians. The Charter Oak at Hartford, which preserved the writtenguarantee of the liberties of the Colony of Connecticut. THE PLANTING SONG. (Air: America.)Grow thou and flourish well,Eve
. Louisiana special days. Programs and suggestions for observing the same. Session 1909-10. , under which theapostle John Elliot taught the Indians Christianity. The Ash and Tulip trees planted at Mount Vernon by Wash-ington. The Elm tree planted by General Grant on the Capitolgrounds at Washington. The Treaty Elm tree at Philadelphia, under which WilliamPenn made his famous treaty with nineteen tribes of bar-barians. The Charter Oak at Hartford, which preserved the writtenguarantee of the liberties of the Colony of Connecticut. THE PLANTING SONG. (Air: America.)Grow thou and flourish well,Ever the story tell Of this glad may thy branches raiseTo heaven our grateful praise,Waft them on sunlight rasrs To God away. Deep in the earth to-daySafely thy roots we lay, Tree of our love;Grow thou and flourish long;Ever our grateful songShall its glad notes prolong To God above. —Selected. Give fools their gold and knaves their power; Let fortunes bubbles rise and fall;Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all. —John Greervleaf Whittier. (U). Showing Method of Obtaining growth Pine Pine Forest. (12) To avert treelessness; to improve the climatic conditions;for the sanitation and embellishment of home environments;for the love of the beautiful and useful combined in the musicand majesty of a tree as fancy and truth unite in an epicpoem, Arbor Day was created. It has grown with the vigorand beneficence of a grand truth, or a great tree.—J. SterlingMorton. SKETCH OF J. STERLING MORTON. The Founder of Arbor Sterling Morton was born in Jefferson County, NewYork, in 1832. He was of Puritan stock, his ancestors havingcome from England on the Little Ann, the first ship afterthe Mayflower. His parents removed to Michigan when theson was still a baby. He was sent to good private schools andseminaries and later on to Michigan University, but was grad-uated at Union College, New York, in 1854. Immedi
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