216 FORESTRY ALMANAC 



years hence great stretches of the devastated regions will be verdant 

 with cypress and honey locust, with Sitka spruce, Colorado fir and 

 Monterey pine... It will be a beautiful benefaction to which no 

 Frenchman's eyes can turn in the future without a thought to the 

 givers ... It will be a fine thing for this country when there is a general 

 emulation of the example of France in the replanting of a forest 

 on every stretch of country which can sustain it and which is use- 

 less otherwise. 



