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 // out in the wet a friend you met, 
 Do you think you would know his silhouette? 
 So if the sun you would like to shun 
 'Neath a friendly tree, come choose which one. 
 
 This Arbor Day Leaflet is presented to the children ef Newark that they may learn 
 to lore trees. It is the gift of the Board of Education and the Shade Tree Dfrwfcm, 
 Department of Parks and Public Property, John F. Monahan, Director. 
 
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 IT is evident from the cover of this pamphlet that 
 we do not need all that a photograph tells us in 
 
 order to recognize our friends. A silhouette will do. 
 
 Now trees are just as individual as you and I are. 
 Each has his own outline and features, his own purpose 
 and duties. 
 
 If you don't believe it, look at these silhouettes, make 
 up your mind what sort of fellow each represents and then 
 read what the poet has said about each to see whether 
 he and you agree. 
 
 So much for the character. 
 
 As to uses: 
 
 There are the soldier trees, which in serried ranks 
 hold together and protect the barren sand against wind 
 and wave until it begins to bear living plants. Then we 
 have the willow trees in league with the land to hold the 
 banks of streams against the rush of waters. There are 
 also the doctor and red cross trees, that give their blossoms 
 and seed, their leaves and sap, their bark and root for 
 balm and medicine and refreshment. There are worker 
 trees, that work together in the great forest to create soil 
 and wood, to bottle up the heat and light of the sunbeam 
 for the zero days. Then we also have the policeman trees, 
 the thorny locust, that grow the wood for the policeman's 
 "billy," and the confectioner trees, that make the sugar, 
 and the restaurant trees, that produce food and drink for 
 all mankind. There are the grey-robed Senators — 
 philosophers and statesmen — looking haughtily upon the 
 race of men who stay upon earth but seventy years, while 
 they remain a thousand. 
 
 A little girl in the woods of Wisconsin has this 
 charming entry in her diary: "I felt sad inside. I went to 
 talk things over with my chum, Michael Angelo Sanzio 
 Raphael. He is that most tall fir tree that grows just back 
 of the barn. I scooted up the barn door. From there 
 I climbed on to the lower part of the barn roof. Up 
 there I took a long look at the world about. After, I 
 looked in four straight ways and four corner ways. I 
 said a little prayer. I always say a little prayer before I 
 jump off the barn into the arms of Michael Angelo Sanzio 
 Raphael * * * Today when I did jump I did land right 
 proper in that fir tree. It is such a comfort to nestle up 
 
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 to Michael Angelo Sanzio Raphael when one is in trouble. 
 He is such a grand tree. He has an understanding souL" 
 
 By these silhouettes we expect to introduce you to 
 acquaintances with whom you may become intimate in 
 their homes out-of-doors. "Mr. Scholar, Miss Pupil, 
 please know Miss Tulip and Mr. Oak." 
 
 Really to know these folks you must have: A pair 
 of eyes that see, a pair of hands that serve, and "an 
 understanding soul." 
 
 Try your eyes first. Look at the silhouettes and 
 read their names in the pamphlet you hold. Then your 
 teacher will hold up her pamphlet, covering the name 
 on each page, and you will try to name each silhouette 
 as she shows it. 
 
 An "understanding soul" is often the gift of God, 
 like a genius for music, or a love of your fellow-men. 
 But it may be cultivated by keeping company with those 
 who have it, either in flesh or through their works. 
 
 And now for the hands that serve: 
 
 A little boy was asked, "What is the chief end of 
 man?" He replied, "Well, the feet are important, but 
 the head is the importantest." Now with a tree it is just 
 the other way — the "importantest" end is the feet. So 
 the most important thing that you can do for a tree is 
 to turn chiropodist. 
 
 The tree's roots need air and water. The tree can- 
 not get these unless the ground surface at the base is 
 left unpaved and is kept loosened. This loosening of 
 the soil does a threefold service to the tree. First, it 
 enables the air to get to the roots. Second, it lets the 
 rains soak in. Third, it makes the soil food wholesome 
 for the tree's roots to absorb. 
 
 Keep the ground loosened. You cannot do more 
 good for your tree in any other way. 
 
 Carl Bannwart, 
 
 Superintendent Shad* Tree Division. 
 
 The artists who have prepared these silhouettes are Grace Norton Rose, 
 George A. King, Walter R. MacPherson and Henry Turner Bailey. The 
 Beech, Hemlock, Pin Oak and Lombard? Poplar were drawn by Mrs. Rasa', 
 the Tulip and Willow by Mr. King and the Norway Maple by Mr. 
 MacPherson. All these were done expressly for the children ef Newark, 
 New Jersey, wider the direction of the Shade Tree Division. The other 
 drawings are from Henry Tomer Bailey's "Trees in Silhouette,** used with 
 his generous permission. 
 
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Strong-handed, broad-backed 
 And as straight as thy pines 
 
 To the scheme of thy hemisphere 
 Shape thy designs. 
 
 WHITE PINE 
 
Of all of nature's children in the 
 schoolroom of the plants, 
 
 The most studious and faithful 
 are the trees. 
 
 HICKORY 
 
The leaves like fingers tremulous 
 To seize all coolness overhead, 
 And softly waft it down to us. 
 
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 BEECH 
 
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 See f/ie soft green willow springing 
 Where the waters gently pass. 
 
 WEEPING WILLOW 
 
This tree is sacred to Christmas 
 And domestic mirth. 
 
 HEMLOCK 
 
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 There is rest and sweet enchantment 
 In the shadow of an Elm. 
 
 ELM 
 
From burst of leaf till fall of leaf 
 I braid deep amplitudes of shade. 
 
 NORWAY MAPLE 
 
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 And he sternly looks on the woods 
 below, As conscious of his might. 
 
 PIN OAK 
 
A slender tree upon the height 
 In lonely beauty towers. 
 
 LOMBARDY POPLAR 
 
The apple tree is white with bloom, 
 Through spring air filters soft perfume. 
 
 APPLE 
 
Thou standest as proud as the 
 queen of a realm. 
 
 TULIP 
 
With his gnarled old arms, and his 
 
 iron form, 
 Majestic in the wood. 
 
 WHITE OAK 
 
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 The dainty ash at length receives 
 Her dainty garniture of leaves. 
 
 ASH 
 
 The Venus tree, the Queen of trees, 
 Holds up her long hands to the breeze, 
 And far above all others fair. 
 Peeps forth from out her soft green hair. 
 
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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UBRARY 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY 
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 MAR * 5 1976 
 
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