Arbor Day

Mt. Vernon, Illinois celebrates Arbor Day every year by distributing tree seedlings to school kids, and larger trees to adult residents. Today, members of the Tree Board, the Mt. Vernon Garden Club, and city employees bagged seedlings early in the day, attached planting instructions, and delivered them to the schools. The selections this year are overcup oak, pecan, and pitch X loblolly pine hybrid.


Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.- J. Sterling Morton