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The First Arbor Day. History of Arbor Day. How to make Arbor Day most useful. Improvement of School Grounds. How to plant trees. The best trees to plant. The best trees and shrubs for home lawns. The most useful trees. Varieties of trees on Oklahoma farms, and in forests. How to care for trees. The world's greatest forests. Historic trees. The relation of trees to birds. Why we should encourage tree planting.

 

TEACHER: I will plant in the wilderness the cedar tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine and the box tree together.

PUPILS: Blessed is the man whose delight is in the law of the Lord. He shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water that bringeth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also doth not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

TEACHER: I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranites budded.

PUPILS: And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the Lord.

TEACHER: For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land; a land of brooks of water of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranites; a land of oil, olive, and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

PUPILS: And Israel said take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds.

TEACHER: Wisdom is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her; and happy is everyone that retaineth her.

PUPILS: The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.

TEACHER: Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

TEACHER AND PUPILS: To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. 