Ancient Instinct and Modern Science Combine in Revealing to Us the Beauty and Value of Trees and Birds ... I Proclaim April the Twenty-fourth, Next, as Arbor and Bird Day it is My Hope that Appropriate Exercises Will be Held in Our Schools and that Large Numbers of Our People Will Observe the Occasion by the Planting of Trees and Shrubs ... Given Under My Hand and Seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this Fourteenth Day of April ... One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-six ...