42 FORESTRY ALMANAC 



The Legion early saw the advantage of planting trees as memorials. 

 The American Legion Memorial Forest of Herkimer County was 

 started in 1921 and is now almost completely planted. In Newport 

 News, Virginia, members of the Legion took up tree-planting as their 

 part of a " city beautiful " campaign, and persuaded hundreds of 

 householders to plant shade trees on their property. Almost a house- 

 to-house campaign was conducted in behalf of this project. Legion- 

 naires of Minneapolis have planted more than 1000 high-arched elms 

 four abreast, two on either side of parallel paved boulevards compos- 

 ing the Victory Memorial Driveway. An example of the keen interest 

 of Legionnaires in such a project is offered in the fact that a post of 

 less than 100 members in Sigourney, Iowa, bought a 3O-acre plot, laid 

 it out as a public park, and attended to tree-planting on it. These few 

 men paid $4500 into the project. 



There are 11,000 posts of the American Legion, and the best 

 available figures at national headquarters show that fully 2500 of the 

 posts have taken active part in community planting or conservation. 

 Where trees are planted as individual memorials, each is equipped with 

 a small metal tablet giving the name, age and military organization of 

 the veteran so memorialized. 



Arbor Day generally is accepted by members of the Legion as 

 the occasion for the planting of memorial trees. Where the trees are 

 planted for shade along some municipal road, or in a group as a 

 memorial grove, provision is made for their proper care until they 

 have assumed substantial proportions. 



TREE SEEDS SENT OVERSEAS 



" Trees growing from the seeds offered by America will perpetu- 

 ate in the French forests the remembrance of the brotherhood-in-arms 

 of America and France. These saplings will be given a place in the 

 forests of the devastated regions where they will recall the assistance 

 tendered by America to France during the war and during the work 

 of repairing her ruins." 



In these words M. Jacques Carrier, Director-General of Waters 

 and Forests in France, expresses his appreciation to Charles Lathrop 

 Pack, president of the American Tree Association, who has per- 

 sonally, and in the name of the Association, donated annually millions 



