THE ANNUAL MEETING 



average crop of seedlings from the twenty-five million number of American submarine chasers were mobilized 

 seeds presented by the Association to each of our former at will either in the Irish Sea or the North Sea. Almost 

 allies were to be planted in a single block, the resulting 'within sight of one of these future American tree plan- 

 forest would not be likely to cover in all more than five or tations lie today row upon row of these same chasers. 



now the prop- 

 erty of the 

 British gov- 

 ernment and 

 awaiting sale 

 or demolition. 

 Douglas Fir is 

 being planted 

 in almost every 

 section of the 

 British IsTes, 

 but by far the 

 larger portion 

 of the seeds 

 which came 

 from the 

 American For- 

 estry Associa- 

 tion were dis- 

 patched by the 

 commission tc 

 Ireland. Thesif 

 were planted in nurseries in County Tyron, about eigh- 

 teen months ago and have shown a surprisingly rapid 

 growth. It is a fact one of the best nursery showings 

 that may be seen anywhere, and the local foresters may 

 well be proud thereof. This disposition of the seeds was 

 quite without any suggestion from the American For- 

 estry Association and in view of the Irish problem we can 

 only hope that here too their dedication as seeds of good 

 will will bear fruit in helping to establish the desire for 

 broad-minded co-operation and understanding. 



X thousand 

 acres, while 

 France, for ex- 

 ample, is con- 

 fronted with 

 the necessity of 

 reforesting not 

 less than two 

 million acres. 



Across the 

 channel in 

 England the 

 use of our 

 seeds is bi 

 more than or- 

 dinary interest 

 because of its 

 connectionwith 

 Great Britain's 

 new forest pol- 

 icy. Here again 

 the favorite 



A NURSERY IN WINDSOR FOREST 



The seed of American Western larch presented to the British government by the American 

 Forestry Association has suffered very much from the drought of the past summer. 



American species is the Douglas Fir, although Sitka 

 spruce (the spruce of Alaska and our northern Pacific 

 coast) is much desired. As a moisture loving tree it 

 would seem to be especially suited to the British climate. 

 About a hundred pounds of American seed were allo- 

 cated by the British Forestry Commission to the inter- 

 esting work of afforestation along the route of the Cale- 

 donian Canal in Scotland. From the point of view of 

 sentiment few better places could have been found than 

 this, since that canal was the route by which a large 



ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 

 AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



The annual meeting of the American Forestry 

 Association will be held in Washington, D. C, 

 on Thursday, January 26, 1922, at 2 P. M., at the 

 New Willard Hotel. 



At this meeting the amended by-laws, which 

 are published on Page 39 of this magazine, will 



be submitted to the members, and they will be 

 asked to adopt the amendments. 



There will be addresses by prominent speak-' 

 ers on forestry topics at the general session in 

 the afternoon, and in the evening there will be 

 speeches and a smoker at the University Club. 



