Arbor Day: Its History, Observation, Spirit and Significance, Volume 3Robert Haven Schauffler |
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... standing in certain parts of rural Germany , where each member of each family plants a tree with appropriate cere- monies at Whitsuntide , forty days after Easter . Some unknown seeker after truth once discovered in a Swiss chronicle of ...
... standing in certain parts of rural Germany , where each member of each family plants a tree with appropriate cere- monies at Whitsuntide , forty days after Easter . Some unknown seeker after truth once discovered in a Swiss chronicle of ...
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... stand . A pile of similar soil should be ready as soon as the tree is put in position to sift over its roots and pack down upon and between them . Settle this soil still more about the fibrous roots by giving it a copious sprinkling ...
... stand . A pile of similar soil should be ready as soon as the tree is put in position to sift over its roots and pack down upon and between them . Settle this soil still more about the fibrous roots by giving it a copious sprinkling ...
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... stand and grow in virgin majesty , ungirdled and unscarred , while the trunk becomes a firm pillar of the forest temple , and the branches spread abroad a refuge of bright green leaves for the birds of the air . IMPROVEMENT OF SCHOOL ...
... stand and grow in virgin majesty , ungirdled and unscarred , while the trunk becomes a firm pillar of the forest temple , and the branches spread abroad a refuge of bright green leaves for the birds of the air . IMPROVEMENT OF SCHOOL ...
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... stand by , while a century - old tree , the pride and beauty of a street , has been killed to widen a road or to make room for some petty building . Such outrages have been perpetrated with a coolness that confessed to unconsciousness ...
... stand by , while a century - old tree , the pride and beauty of a street , has been killed to widen a road or to make room for some petty building . Such outrages have been perpetrated with a coolness that confessed to unconsciousness ...
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... Stands by , alert for flight , to bear his lord Into the strange heart of that alien world Till he shall live in it as in himself And know its longing as he knows his own . Behind a little , where the shadows fall , Lingers Religion ...
... Stands by , alert for flight , to bear his lord Into the strange heart of that alien world Till he shall live in it as in himself And know its longing as he knows his own . Behind a little , where the shadows fall , Lingers Religion ...
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