TREE SEEDS PRESENTED TO OUR ALLIES 



THIRTY-SIX million forest tree seeds for reforest- 

 ing their war devastated lands were presented by the 

 American Forestry Association to France, Belgium 

 and Great Britain on Thursday, January 15. The pre- 

 sentation was made at Boston, on the Common, by Presi- 



General for Belgium, and by Captain Gloster Armstrong, 

 the Consul General for Great Britain. 



In presenting the seed Mr. Pack said: "A hundred 

 years from now these trees will tell the glory of all those 

 who heard the call of humanity from across 3,000 miles 



A PORTION OF THE SHIPMENT OF SEEDS TO OUR ALLIES 



The contribution of forest tree seed by the American Forestry Association to France, Belgium and Great Britain comprised approximately 

 36,000,000 seeds. The photograph shows only a portion of the shipment, the remainder of which will be sent later. President Charles Lathrop 

 Pack, of the American Forestry Association, is at the right of the photograph with a British flag in his hand. 



dent Charles Lathrop Pack, of the American Forestry 

 Association, and the seed was formally received for 

 their respective governments by J. F. J. Flamand, the 

 French Consul General; Redington Fiske, the Consul 



of water. We on this side are planting memorial trees 

 and "Roads of Remembrance," but this gift to help 

 reforest the battle areas and areas in Great Britain which 

 were sacrificed to war's demands will, I believe, do more 



