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Garden Club plans to have 1,600 more elms established 

 along the highway as far as the Pierce County line. Ta- 

 coma is expected to finish planting the remaining 13 

 miles. When the project is completed, the two Puget 

 Sound sister cities will be linked by a Memorial Way 33 

 miles long, a noble Road of Remembrance that will keep 

 ever fresh the valorous devotion of those whose hero- 

 ism it perpetuates. 



In Dallas, Texas, Forester Gilliam is doing a great 

 work in arousing the city to tree planting. A school 

 plants a tree for a former pupil as for example the Uni- 

 versity of Washington, at Seattle, which has named many 

 for her former students. A church can plant a memorial 

 row, a class plants trees, one for each of its members 



PART OF A LARGE TREE PLANTING 



The Business Men's League of Helena, Arkansas, planted trees 

 on nearly all the streets of that town, in order to form municipal 

 roads of remembrance. Miss Mary Yaeger, daughter of the 

 Mayor of the city, holding the tree. 



on the college campus. Twenty years later it can hold 

 a reunion there. Atlanta writers plant trees in honor 

 of famous men and women. A child is born and a tree 

 is planted in its name. Tree planting has long been 

 the practice of foreign visitors when in another country. 

 The Prince of Wales placed many when he visited here. 

 Pershing placed memorial trees in France as did Foch 

 when in the United States. These trees are all being 

 recorded by the American Forestry Association in its 

 Hall of Fame for Trees with a history. This 

 idea has brought hundreds of nominations of trees mark- 

 ing historic spots throughout the country. There is no 

 activity to which tree planting does not lend itself. In 

 no other way can a community be brought more closely 

 together than by community tree planting. 



The Garden Club of Seattle has planted thousands 



Wide World Photo. 



TREE PL.\NTED FOR JOHN MUIR 

 Mr. H. Fairfield Osborn, President of the Museum of Natural 

 History, New York, planting a tree in memory of John Muir, 

 the famous naturalist, at the main entrance of that institution. 



THE GOVERNOR'S TREE 

 Every governor of Indiana plants a tree on the capital grounds 

 soon after taking office. Here is former Governor James P., 

 Goodrich planting his tree. 



