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THE TREE 



THE MEMORIAL THAT LIVES 



By CHARLES LATHROP PACK 



President of the American Forestry Association 

 WASHINGTON, D. C. 



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FANT a tree, that glorious sign of Nature to the 

 world that life is ever renewing. Plant the "tree 

 that looks at God all day and lifts its leafy arms 

 to pray," and in the planting you will have erected the 

 finest of all monuments not alone to the hero of a war 

 not alone to mark a date not alone as shelter for genera- 

 tions to come but the finest of all monuments to your- 

 self. In the planting of a tree you will leave behind a 

 living sentinel that 

 you gave to Nature 

 that she might give 

 back again in abund- 

 ance to others who 

 come after you. It 

 is a great thing the 

 planting of a tree. 

 Napoleon, in the heat 

 and stress of a cam- 

 paign, ordered that a 

 military highway be 

 turned aside that one 

 of Nature's greatest 

 wonders might be 

 saved. The forests 

 of France saved her 

 and civilization in the 

 World War. Much 

 of the history of the 

 world has been made 

 beneath trees and 

 much of it has been 

 written because of 

 trees. 



With the signing of 

 the Armistice the 

 American Fore stry 

 Association proposed 

 the memorial tree idea 

 and it met with in- 

 stant approval. Since 



then trees have been planted by individuals, schools, 

 colleges, churches, patriotic organizations. These trees 

 were planted not alone for the man who gave his life 

 to his country, but to honor those who offered their 

 lives. Memorials of many forms will be adopted, but 

 each should be given the proper setting of memorial trees. 

 Tree planting has taken many phases. In some places 

 hundreds of acres have been purchased by a municipal- 



THE PRINCE OF WALES PLANTING AN ENGLISH ELM IN CENTRAL PARK, 

 NEW YORK CITY. CHARLES LATHROP PACK, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY ASSOCIATION, AT THE RIGHT OF THE TREE. 



ity and memorial trees will be placed for every one in war 

 service from a given county. Another phase is the 

 "Roads of Remembrance" idea of the American For- 

 estry Association. This is roadside tree planting. This 

 has been taken up by women's clubs, automobile clubs 

 and the motor industry. We are face to face with an op- 

 portunity, as a great road building program is planned by 

 the states such as will not come to us again. With the 



"Roads of Remem- 

 brance" idea the peo- 

 ple of this country 

 have the chance to 

 make the roads beau- 

 tiful. Throughout the 

 land, tree planting as- 

 sociations are being 

 organized in the 

 schools in co-opera- 

 tion with the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Associa- 

 tion. It is easy to 

 visualize what each 

 school yard will mean 

 to this generation of 

 children because of 

 this tree planting. 



Memorial tree 

 planting has been suc- 

 cessful because trees, 

 their planting and 

 care, have always 

 been a subject of 

 great interest. To 

 plant a tree is a com- 

 mendable act. To 

 give timely attention 

 to trees after they 

 have been planted is 

 fully as praiseworthy 

 as their planting. To 

 refrain from removing trees from a place where they 

 are unquestionably needed is another mark of the interest 

 of a person in making the land a good place in 

 which to live. 



Now this matter of the planting and the care of trees 

 can be readily promoted by anyone. There are a few 

 fundamental principles underlying the various simple 

 operations. But the entire affair is mostly a matter of 



