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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Mihiel Parkways, Wilson, Pershing and Lafayette Cir- 

 cles, connecting with existing parks and making a com- 

 prehensive municipal improvement feature. It is sug- 

 gested that one of the parkways be named "Argonne 

 Forest," while a connecting plaza be named "Avenue of 

 the 138th" in honor of the St. Louis National Guard 

 Regiment which was in France. 



Atlanta, Georgia, has selected April 6th, the anni- 

 versary of this country's entrance into the war, as the 

 date for the planting there of trees in honor of the heroes 

 of that city and Fulton County. The War Mothers of 

 Atlanta have arranged for this dedication. The Atlanta 

 Writers' Club has planned to set out a grove of trees 

 in honor of prominent Georgia authors ; and the first to 

 be so honored is Jacques Futrelle, who was lost on the 

 Titanic. 



ing to the Association on this subject, George Bird Grin- 

 ncll, of New York, approves of the idea for a memorial 

 park or parks in Colonel Roosevelt's honor, as well as 

 of the plan for memorial trees for soldiers and sailors. 

 The Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce has adopted 

 the idea of planting trees there for Alleghany County's 

 soldiers and sailors who died in the war. The Elyria 

 (Ohio) Rotary Club has decided to plant maples along 

 the drives in the Memorial Hospital grounds, one for 

 each native son who was killed. John Poole, president 

 of the International Association of Rotary Clubs, speaks 

 of the memorial trees as "living and loving tributes" 

 to the memory of America's heroes. In Fort Wayne, 

 Indiana, the department of public parks has purchased 

 150 trees for a memorial park. 



Photographs by courtesy of D. N. Pomcroy 



THE END OF A PERFECT DAY 



Beauty and the Beast have been busy filling up the baskets and sacks with walnuts and they seem to have made a very success- 

 ful haul. While "Maud" will not share in the feast, there are enough of the delicious, nutritious nuts for many children to 

 enjoy along with the little lady shown in the picture. When planting trees in honor of the nation's heroes who served or who fell 

 in the great war, why not set out walnuts or some other equally valuable food -producing tree which will combine a practical with 

 a sentimental value? 



The tree planting day which is to be observed this 

 spring by the Sharon Community Center, of Farming- 

 ton, Iowa, is to be known as "Roosevelt Day." Thus, 

 at the suggestion of the American Forestry Association, 

 the man who occupied such a prominent position for 

 having made conservation a live issue in the United 

 States, is to be paid a tribute which would have appealed 

 most strongly to his nature-loving heart. In many places 

 throughout the country they are planning to honor 

 Colonel Roosevelt's memory by tree planting. In writ- 



An American elm for every Ramsey County, Min- 

 nesota, son who paid the supreme sacrifice, is to be 

 planted in Linwood Park, St. Paul. Worcester, Massa- 

 chusetts, is considering the placing of a row of trees 

 along Green Hill Park Driveway leading out to Camp 

 Bartlett, where the boys from that city trained in the 

 early days of the war. Clinton, Massachusetts, is plan- 

 ning a park of trees in the heart of the city. At 

 Fort Worth, Texas, the men who trained at Camp Bowie 

 are to be remembered by trees along two avenues leading 



