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 ARBOR DAY MESSAGE 
 TO BOYS AND GIRLS 
 
 TREES NEGLECTED 
 
 TREES PROTECTED 
 
 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 
 
 PLANTING AND PRESERVATION OF CITY TREES 
 
 Headquarters: Children's Museum, in Bedford Park 
 Brooklyn Avenue and Park Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
ARBOR DAY MESSAGE ^^ 
 TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF THE ^ 
 
 BROOKLYN SCHOOLS 
 
 Arbor Day has a special message for you, boys and girls. 
 It calls attention to the trees of our city; to the need of caring for 
 those we have, and also of planting many more trees. Do you 
 not like a s'.reet over-arched with beautiful green trees far better 
 than a barren unshaded street? Would not your school be much 
 more attractive if it were surrounded by trees? Did you ever 
 think why you prefer to walk in our parks instead of in vacant 
 lots? 
 
 Trees make your surroundings beautiful and healthful, and 
 for this reason Arbor Day brings you its three-fold message. 
 First : It tells you what the trees need. 
 
 Second : It explains to you what boys and ^irls 
 can do for the trees. 
 Third : It su^^ests how you can help in plant- 
 ing more trees. 
 
 Do you realize how many difficulties the beautiful trees have 
 to overcome in making themselves so useful? City trees are not 
 living in their natural home, the forest; on the contrary, they have 
 a hard struggle for food, air and water. They have also many 
 insect enemies continually destroyin-g :them. Horses gnaw the 
 bark wounding them sadly, and 'thoughtless boys break off the 
 branches and hack the trunks. 
 
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 Perhaps you have never thought how you can help in sav- 
 ing our trees. The second part of our message asks you to culti- 
 vate and water the soil around the roots of some tree in the dry, 
 ^.''^^ hot weather. Will you not keep horses away from the tender 
 
 hJk bark and loosen the guard when it becomes too tight for the 
 
 ^ growing trunk? Above all, will you not look for the white egg 
 
 clusters of the Tussock Moth on the bark of many trees and on 
 c fences? You can gather and burn these egg clusters, each one 
 
 ■^ of which contains perhaps five hundred eggs which may hatch 
 
 into five hundred hungry caterpillars next month. These five 
 hundred caterpillars will then develop into moths from which a 
 second more troublesome brood will appear. 
 
 See then how much ^ood you can do by de- 
 stroying even one eg^ mass! 
 
 Now the third part of this Arbor Day Message seeks your 
 help in getting more trees for our city. There are several ways 
 in which you can work, and the AMERICAN ASSOCIA- 
 TION FOR THE PLANTING AND PRESERVA- 
 TION OF CITY TREES will gladly point out some of 
 these ways. It will help you to form a tree club for studying, 
 preserving and planting trees. Come to the headquarters and 
 find out what to do. 
 
 Arbor Day is a starting point for all this good work. If you 
 begin today to take especial pride m the trees of your parks and 
 your neighborhood and to care for them, you will soon become a 
 power in helping yourselves, your friends and your city. 
 
 Brooklyn, New York 
 May 5, 19 II 
 
LIBRfiRY OF CONGRESS 
 
 001 733 667 8 ^ 
 
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