AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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FORESTRY IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD 



Boston Traveler: 



On Boston Common representatives of 

 the American Forestry Association pre- 

 sented to consular agents of Great Britain, 

 France and Belgium, 35,000,000 tree seeds. 



What finer testimony of American inter- 

 est in the economic reconstruction of these 

 Allied countries could be given? Millions 

 of trees, replacing those cut down or 

 demolished in the war, will in future years 

 remind these peoples who sacrificed so 

 much to save civilization, that the United 

 States, less afflicted by war, gave freely of 

 its resources, not only for war, but for 

 the replacement of war losses. 



The need of reforestation is apparent 

 from the fact that Great Britain cut down 

 more than half its standing timber during 



ports or decimated as they stand by the 

 fire of guns. 



This gift has been made possible by vol- 

 untary giving. It has not come out of the 

 public treasury. It represents the good- 

 will of a very fine corps of professional 

 men, some of whom learned the funda- 

 mentals of forestry in Europe or from 

 Europe's literature on the subject and who 

 thus feel that they are in a way paying a 

 natural debt of gratitude. 



It also represents the opening of purses 

 by other people, who like to make their 

 money investments, even those of good- 

 will, as enduring as possible. He who 

 invests money in a tree wherever planted 

 benefits society in a variety of enduring 

 ways, not at all subject to the mutations 



Boston Evening Transcript: 



A really wonderful gift is the present 

 of forest tree seeds which the American 

 Forestry Association makes to the repre- 

 sentatives of Great Britain, France and 

 Belgium on Boston Common. The lives 

 of millions of human beings and of horses 

 are not the only lives sacrificed in vast 

 numbers in the great war. Millions of 

 trees, and indeed whole splendid forests, 

 have gone down in the conflict. Wooded 

 areas in France and Belgium are incapable 

 of spontaneous restoration, so complete is 

 the destruction; the land must be pre- 

 pared and re-seeded. In Britain, where 

 the sacrifice of the woods has been only 

 through cutting for war uses, and not by 



A GIFT TO EUROPE 



A SHIP is now on its way to Europe bearing a gift to England, France and Belgium of a novel sort and fraught with 

 many possibilities. We may assert that the voyage of this boat may teem with great consequences so that it may be 

 comparable to the vessel which carried the first United States soldiers to the great war and it may prove to be of 

 more importance than any of the trips of the steamship George Washington. 



The boat carries 35,000 tree seeds, the gift of the American Forestry to aid in reforesting the three countries mentioned. 

 The varieties of seeds include tideland spruce, whit ash, rock maple, tulip, white fir, Douglas spruce, western larch, English 

 spruce, red oak and scarlet oak. It will be seen that the conifers are in the majority and we are told that the seeds have 

 ensured inspection and whatever else may be necessary to rid them of any form of fungi or disease and are further informed 

 that other shipments will follow as fast as the seeds are collected. 



There is need enough of these, for men who have been overseas have told us of the necessary or wanton destruction of 

 trees in France and Flanders. Many will be surprised that there is need of reforesting in England, but the American Forestry 

 Association says that during the war the English cut down more than half the trees on the! British Islands in order to carry on 

 war work, and thereby suffered a greater percentage of loss than either France or Belgium. 



One may hope that the oaks will thrive, both the red and the scarlet, although we realize that the percentage of germina- 

 tion of acorns is low, as they will add to the beauty of the landscape no matter in what part of the world they grow. They 

 may be deliberate in their growth but they, at least, can afford the time. 



The tulip tree makes, we feel, more rapid growth than any of the other varieties in the list and yet, if these trees find 

 the soil and climate friendly, they will be towering over French and Flanders fields long after the last veteran has gone hence 

 and the war has become a matter of tradition to the people of France and England. Even then, if they grow, the oaks will be 

 vigorous after the other trees have completed their growth and are serving the needs of the people. It is no small gift to 

 Europe, these seeds that are now on their way across the ocean. HARTFORD COURANT. 



the four years of titanic conflict. In 

 France and Belgium, although the percent- 

 age of trees destroyed was smaller, the 

 damage in the battle zones was more com- 

 plete. 



A happy thought was that which found 

 expression in this gift of tree seeds. 



Washington Herald: 



The American Forestry Association has 

 shipped to Europe 35,000,000 tree seeds with 

 which lands swept by war or estates strip- 

 ped of their forests for use by the Allies 

 in legitimate military operations may be 

 reforested. Great Britain, France and 

 Belgium will get most of these embryo 

 oaks, maples, firs, larches and ashes; and a 

 generation will look upon them in their 

 glory, let us hope, that will not have to see 

 them converted into trench and mine sup- 



of the stock market, or the reversals of 

 personal or party fortunes, or the ignor- 

 ance of men in high places in state and 

 school. He sets up a league with nature, 

 becomes an ally of sun and rain, and estab- 

 lishes working relations with the unmoral 

 forces of life, which often are so much 

 more likeable than the moral and immoral 

 ones, because so impartial, enduring and 

 great as contrasted with the pettiness of 

 man in his efforts to do both right and 

 wrong. 



In this particular instance the tree-plant- 

 ers are in their own quiet way, while diplo- 

 mats, statesmen, financiers and class-con- 

 scious groups wrangle over the reconstruc- 

 tion problem, doing an effective job in 

 genuine A No. 1 internationalism. The 

 more money the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation gets for this work the more seeds 

 will go to Europe. 



the wholesale destruction of actual warfare, 

 spontaneous or locally provided seed resto- 

 ration should be possible. But great quan- 

 tities of forest tree seeds are needed from 

 abroad for prompt restoration. About the 

 only European forest or propagating 

 grounds which could supply these seeds 

 are those of Germany. And under all the 

 circumstances it is probable that the En- 

 tente peoples would much rather look to 

 America for forest tree restoration than 

 to Germany. 



The sentiment of the transaction is all 

 right. Nothing can be more appropriate 

 than that America should bear to ravaged 

 France and Belgium the gift of trees. The 

 American Forestry Association has done 

 a noble thing in donating the seeds. 



