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PRESENTS OUR CELEBRATION OF
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ARBOR DAY
The Week 01 March 4 — 8, 2013
FOR. ALL THE THRID GRADE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS LOCATED IN NEWPORT BEACH AND COSTA MESA
ARBOR DAY is an opportunity to celebrate trees and what they contribute to humanity and our
environment. It started approximately 145 years ago when Birdsey Northrop, a noted educator
traveled throughout the United States urging people to plant trees to beautify America. The State of
Nebraska took heed and in 1872 became the first state to proclaim Arbor Day. They started to beautify
their landscape and enrich their soil which produced more oxygen for their residents to breath. In
California, we celebrate Arbor Day on March 7th, honoring Luther Burbank's birthday, a famous
naturalist known for improving many varieties of new eatable plants and trees. Other states celebrate
Arbor Day later in the spring when their weather improves which to promote the growing of trees.
School children have been planting trees since 1884 when the National Education Association started
to promote Arbor Day as a sign of spring and all the good that plant life brings to their communities.
Many of the great trees you may see at our national shrines, churches, and public facilities, including
schools, were planted by students like yourselves in observance of Arbor Day and the joys of spring.
The Rotary Club of Newport- Balboa has been observing Arbor Day since 1969 when our Club
President/retired USMC General /O.C. Board of Supervisor Thomas Riley started giving seedling trees
to all students attending third grade in both a public and private schools located in the cities of Costa
Mesa and Newport Beach. So to celebrate this 44th year of giving a seedling trees, your fellow third
grade students will be able to plant over 2,500 trees in the community during the Spring of 2013 in the
past joining well over 100,000 other students who have received a tree to celebrate Arbor Day.
Your seedling tree is commonly known in California as the
Carrotwood, or its horticultural name: Cupaniopsis
anacardioides. It is a native to eastern and northern
Australia. In Southern California, this tree grows rapidly in a
variety of soil conditions (sandy to clay) to a height and girth
(width) of 30 -35 feet. It endures both drought and
overwatering and is known as an attractive ornamental or
street tree in this area adjacent to our California coast.
Physically, the tree has a smooth grey or brown bark with
raised horizontal lines and the trunk grows up to a 20"
diameter. The rich, green colored leaves are pinnate, are
egg or elliptic oblong shaped being 3 to 4 inches long
coming to a blunt tip with veins evident on either side of the
leaf that developed in clusters of 6 to 10 leaves per small
branches. The tree produces greenish white clusters of
flowers starting in May. The flowers then turns into a fruit
that is an orange to yellow colored capsule with three lobes
which each lobe houses a glossy dark brown seed.
Thank you for helping another tree to grow that will help the
beauty of our Community and help the environment.
THE ROTARY CLUB OF NEWPORT - BALBOA
Other Information on the Internet:
http://www.arbor-day.net
http: / /en.wikipedia orq /wiki /Cupaniopsis
anacardioides
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