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- Title: Arbor Day Leaves
- Author : Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston
- Release Date : January 01, 1912
- Genre: Nature,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 611 KB
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A complete programme for arbor day observance, including readings, recitations, music, and general information. It is not necessary to this that there should be formal classes in botany or or any natural science, though we think no school should be without its botanical class or classes, nor should anyone be eligible to the place of a teacher in our public schools who is not competent to give efficient instruction in botany at least. But much may be done in this direction informally, by brief, familiar talks in the intervals between the regular recitations of the school-room, or during the walks to and from school. A tree by the road-side will furnish an object lesson for pleasant and profitable discourse for many days and at all seasons. A few flowers, which teacher or pupil may bring to the school-room, will easily be made the means of interesting the oldest and the youngest and of imparting the most profitable instruc.