TREE DAY-AND TREE YEAR.
If the expression “Arbor Day” is replaced by “Tree Day,” probably the public response to the call for planting will be greater than it has ever been. Why use the word “arbor” which is merely the Latin word for tree? It was a thoughtless adoption of an American selection of a foreign word instead of a plain English one.
New Zealanders have been urged to “plant a tree.” Better advice is “grow a tree.” Tree-mindedness must not be for a day. but for the whole year, next year, and the year after, on and on.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 37, 1 August 1935, Page 8
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99TREE DAY-AND TREE YEAR. Forest and Bird, Issue 37, 1 August 1935, Page 8
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