Arbor Day: Its History, Observation, Spirit and Significance, Volume 3Robert Haven Schauffler |
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... early and curious institution of Arbor Day . It seems that the people of a little Swiss town called Brugg assembled in council and resolved to plant a forest of oak trees on the common . The first rainy day thereafter the citizens began ...
... early and curious institution of Arbor Day . It seems that the people of a little Swiss town called Brugg assembled in council and resolved to plant a forest of oak trees on the common . The first rainy day thereafter the citizens began ...
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... EARLY SPRING William Wordsworth 135 V TREES THE MARSHES OF GLYNN TALKS ON TREES INSCRIPTION FOR THE ENTRANCE TO A WOOD Sidney Lanier 139 Oliver Wendell Holmes 141 William Cullen Bryant 148 THE APPEAL of the Trees . J. Horace McFarland A ...
... EARLY SPRING William Wordsworth 135 V TREES THE MARSHES OF GLYNN TALKS ON TREES INSCRIPTION FOR THE ENTRANCE TO A WOOD Sidney Lanier 139 Oliver Wendell Holmes 141 William Cullen Bryant 148 THE APPEAL of the Trees . J. Horace McFarland A ...
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... early age , even their own , and that it usually begins with a close and thorough knowledge of the birch . This , indeed , might be called the earliest service of the trees to the child , if we did not recall the cradle and the crib ...
... early age , even their own , and that it usually begins with a close and thorough knowledge of the birch . This , indeed , might be called the earliest service of the trees to the child , if we did not recall the cradle and the crib ...
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... early and intimate acquaintance with the birch , and have been revenging ourselves ever since . We have waged against trees , a war of extermination like that of the Old Testament Christians of Massa- chusetts Bay against the Pequot ...
... early and intimate acquaintance with the birch , and have been revenging ourselves ever since . We have waged against trees , a war of extermination like that of the Old Testament Christians of Massa- chusetts Bay against the Pequot ...
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... early , or Benjamin Franklin is drying up , whether Robert Fulton is budding , or General Grant begin- ning to sprout , the pupil will find that a tree may be as interesting as the squirrel that skims along its trunk , or the bird that ...
... early , or Benjamin Franklin is drying up , whether Robert Fulton is budding , or General Grant begin- ning to sprout , the pupil will find that a tree may be as interesting as the squirrel that skims along its trunk , or the bird that ...
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