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- a day, varying in date but always in the spring, observed in certain states of the U.S. by the planting of trees.
the day set aside for the planting of trees, first celebrated 1872 in Nebraska, the brainchild of U.S. agriculturalist and journalist J. Sterling Morton (1832-1902). From Latin arbor “tree,” of unknown origin.