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AMERICAN l-ORKSTRY 



Kansas set Arbor Days in 1875. Then thert was a lapse 

 nntil 1882. when Ohio and North Dakota decided to have 

 tree planting days. In Ohio the celebration was during 

 the sessions of the convention in Cincinnati, which re- 

 sulted in the fonning of what is now the American 

 Forestry Association. Warren Higley, of the Ohio For- 

 estry Commission, suggested to John B. Peaslee, the 

 superintendent of schools, that the school children have 

 a part in the celebration. This resulted in a parade 

 of twenty thousand school children through the streets 

 to Eden Park, where trees were planted in honor of 

 famous men. The following year at St. Paul B. G. 

 Northrup, of Connecticut, introduced a resolution calling 

 on every state to set aside a tree-planting day. In 1896 

 Spain adopted the idea and Hawaii took it up in 1905. 



The day after the Armistice was signed the 

 American Forestry Association began its campaign 

 for memorial tree i)lanting. The tree is the memorial 



simply three things for its report : for whom the tree 

 is planted, the date of planting and the organization 

 doing the planting, and in return the Association sends 

 out certificates of registration for wiiich there is no 

 charge, and files the report on its national honor roll. 



This memorial tree planting has taken on many phases. 

 For instance, at Pasadena, California, which calls her 

 memorial trees her "Hall of Fame," trees have been 

 planted for some of California's great students of nature. 

 In Washington the John Burroughs Clubs, under the 

 direction of Mrs. John D. Patten, have planted a "Hall 

 of Fame" Red oaks for Burroughs, Muir, Thoreau, 

 Whitman and Emerson. Theodore Roosevelt, assistant 

 secretary of the navy, who as a boy knew Burroughs, 

 placed the tree for the naturalist and Dr. F. W. Ballou, 

 head of the Washington schools, took part in the pro- 

 gram on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial. 



Heister Dean Guie reports that one thousand Ameri- 



TREE PLANTING AT A COLLEGE 



The students of the Universuy of Maine, Orono, Maine, planted memorial trees and the attention which was given to the cere- 

 mony is indicated by the large crowd photographed on the college campus. 



offering of the individual. He can plant a tree without 

 waiting for a planning conmiission or an act of a city 

 council. The trees are now being planted both in mem- 

 ory of the man who gave his life to his country and in 

 honor of the man who offered his life when his country 

 called. The idea put forth by the Association has grown 

 from the effort of the individual to the effort of the 

 municipality and even of the state. From a single tree 

 planting by a school or a church, of which the Associa- 

 tion has recorded thousands, we now have memorial 

 parks and Roads of Remembrance. Motor Highway As- 

 sociations everywhere have taken up the plan of tree- 

 lined roads. Whatever form of memorial a municipality 

 decides upon the Association urges that memorial be 

 given the proper setting of memorial trees planted by the 

 individuals of the community. The Association is reg- 

 istering these trees on a national honor roll. It requires 



can elms bordering the Tacoma-Seattle High Line 

 Highway were dedicated to Washington's World War 

 soldier dead January 14 on the road a short distance 

 from Seattle. The elms, four year-olds and from eight 

 to twelve feet in height, planted by the Seattle Garden 

 Club at intervals of 80 feet on both sides of the high- 

 way, extend for eight miles from the city's southern 

 limits. 



Lieut. Gov. W. J. Coyle, a veteran of the recent con- 

 flict, presided over the dedication exercises. Attending 

 and participating were a score of notables, including Mrs 

 Alexander F. McEwan, president of the Seattle Garden 

 Club, who conceived the idea of planting the highway 

 trees. Gold star mothers were present, and representa- 

 tives of the Seattle American Legion Posts, the Veterans 

 of Foreign Wars, and the Disabled Veterans paid tribute 

 to their fallen comrades. By next Armistice Day the 



