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I f Francis Bacon's belief that art is man added to nature is accurate, then each time we plant a tree, it not only reaffirms nature's bounty but in the doing, it becomes a work of art. As the tree grows, it will add to the community of trees consuming light, reflecting light and casting light into shadow. As we planted an acer tree at Foxholm, I recalled my sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Osgood, lining us up at the Bell Elementary School in Marblehead, Massachusetts to recite Joyce Kilmer's Arbor Day poem, "I think that I shall never see/ a thing as lovely as a tree," as we planted a tree at the side of the play yard: firty-four years on, the tree must be huge. As I symbolically held the shovel at Foxholm, I was reminded of the small forest of trees Sam and Ethel Lefrak planted in Israel in memory of my mother. We chose the Acer Palmatum Suminagashi tree, otherwise known as a Japanese maple, from a huge selection at the large nursery at Wisley, the exquisite HYLAND

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