Bright and glorious is that revelation,
Writ all over this great world of ours--
Making evident our own creation,
In these stars of earth, these golden flowers.

--LONGFELLOW.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity;
children love them; tender, contented, ordinary people love
them. They are the cottager's treasure; and in the crowded
town mark, as with a little fragment of rainbow, the windows
of the workers in whose heart rests the covenant of peace.

RUSKIN.




Arbor Day Celebrations.

[Illustration]

GROWING OBSERVANCE OF ARBOR DAY.


It adds to the pleasure attending the observance of Arbor Day when we
think how many are uniting with us in its celebration. It is but a few
years since the day was first known and its observance was limited to
a single one of our States. Now the day is known and observed from
Maine to Oregon and from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Not only is