Cornell Cooperative Extension Celebrates Arbor Day

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County (CCE) will be having its first Arbor Day tree planting on Wednesday with the help of second grade students from the East Meadow School District. The tree planting will take place at East Meadow Farm and Horticulture Center.

"Many trees that went down from our recent hurricanes began their decline the day they were planted," Julie Seghrouchni, horticulture and forestry educator at CCE, said. "They were the wrong plant for the spot, too big for the space, in compacted soil, planted too deep, improperly irrigated, physically injured and so on."

The benefits from the new trees that will be planted include: cleaner air, fresher water, more shade, more oxygen and less carbon dioxide.

Arbor Day began in Nebraska as pioneers settled there, and needed to give life to the once treeless plain. In New York, Arbor day is celebrated on the 4th Friday of April.