26 TREES AS GOOD CITIZENS 



beauty, in the same way that the massive Oaks of the South 

 Atlantic and Gulf States have added beauty and value to 

 plantation and town. What could be a more grievous 

 mental picture than that of Northampton, Greenfield, or 

 historic Williamstown, in Massachusetts; picturesque old 

 Charlestown, in New Hampshire, or Savannah, Georgia, 

 or Mobile, or Tuscaloosa, Ala., or Pass Christian, Miss., 

 or any one of scores of other communities, shorn of 

 the crowning beauty of these stately veterans of shade ? 

 The community in which any one of us may live is 

 entitled to this asset. That our forefathers failed to 

 provide shade for the coming generations is no excuse for 

 similar failure on our part. The longer we delay the plant 

 ing the more remote will be the time of gaining the bene 

 fits of the trees we plant. We can never start any younger. 

 This applies to communities and individuals alike. The 

 time, therefore, for a beginning is the immediate present. 



