SEEDS OF INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP 



ers' houses. Once upon a time 

 these guarded twenty-five 

 thousand acres of beautiful 

 pine and beech forest, of 

 which nothing remains today 

 except the smaller saplings. 

 Heath and gorse bushes con- 

 ceal even the carelessly cut 

 German stumps. So vast an 

 undertaking is involved in re- 

 planting everywhere at once 

 that here the French have 

 adopted a somewhat different 

 system clearing and spading 

 up only a little circle here and 

 there wherein our seed has 

 been sown directly without 

 the intermediate nursery 

 stage. The loss may be heav- 

 ier, but the labor of reforesta- 

 tion should be lightened. This 

 experiment with our seeds is 



THE RUINS OF COUCY-LE-CHATEAU 



The French government has selected such well known places as this for the plantations of 

 American trees, to the end that these small forests may commemorate the partnership of 

 France and America in the Great War. 



4. 



THE FAMOUS CHEMIN DES DAMES 



The dense forest which once stood here was totally destroyed by shell-fire. Twenty years 



from now this spot will be crowned with a fine young forest of American Douglas Fir. 



of unusual interest to us in 

 America, where planting labor 

 costs are so high, and it may 

 be that an experiment made 

 with American Douglas Fir in 

 France will prove to have real 

 value to forestry in America. 

 The vvhole northern district, 

 Lille, Valenciennes and Hir- 

 son, is part of the great coal 

 mining and manufacturing 

 center of France which the 

 German army so thoroughly 

 demolished, and because of 

 their location at the door of 

 reviving industry the wood- 

 lands here, splashed with 

 patches of American trees, 

 will hold some of the highest 

 commercial value of any for- IN THE "ZONE ROUGE' 



estS in the world. No better The French government is confronted with the necessity 

 r f . , . ' , c acres of land upon which the forests were destroyed by 



proof of the importance of re- German army. 



foresting our own eastern 

 areas need be sought. 



The American Forestry As- 

 sociation does not stand alone 

 in this region as the only con- 

 tributor to the future welfare 

 of French forests. In a tiny 

 woodland in the Mormal for- 

 est somehow neglected by the 

 Germany army, is a sign 

 erected by the New York Bird 

 Society and scores of bird 

 houses and feeding stations 

 testify to the manner in which 

 these other Americans too are 



of reforesting nearly two million 

 shell fire or cut by the occupying 



