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ARBOR DAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 337 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARBOR See also:

DAY , the name applied in the See also:United States of See also:America to a day appointed for the public planting of trees (see See also:ARBOUR). Originating, or at least being first successfully put into operation, in See also:Nebraska in 1872 through the instrumentality of J. See also:Sterling See also:Morton, then See also:president of the See also:state See also:Board of See also:Agriculture, it received the See also:official See also:sanction of the state by the See also:proclamation of See also:Governor R. W. Furnas in 1874 and by the enactment in 1885 of a See also:law establishing it as a legal See also:holiday in Nebraska. The See also:movement spread rapidly throughout the United States until with hardly an exception every state and territory celebrates such a day either as a legal or a school holiday. The See also:time of celebration varies in different states—sometimes even in different localities in the same state--but See also:April or See also:early May is the See also:rule in the See also:northern states, and See also:February, See also:January and See also:December are the months in various See also:southern states. A like practice has been introduced in New See also:Zealand. See N. H. Egleston, Arbor Day : Its See also:History and Observance (See also:Washington, 1896), See also:Robert W. Furnas, Arbor Day (See also:Lincoln, Neb., 1888), and R.

H. Schauffier (ed.), Arbor Day (New See also:

York, 1909).

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