MEMORIAL TREES IN 1920 



NOW comes 1920 and with it greater promise for 

 tree planting than any year in the history of our 

 country. In memorial tree planting there has been 

 brought about a great awakening to the value of trees. 

 The American Forestry Association has never before in 

 its history had so great a number of inquiries in regard 

 to tree care and tree planting. With the closing of the 

 war came the thought of memorials and the living, grow- 

 ing tree was suggested and then urged by the association 

 as the memorial of the individual. Now the tree has 



become the memorial of the town, city, county and state. 

 In the schools throughout the land there has been 

 created an amazing demand for tree knowledge and the 

 American Forestry Association is pleased to announce 

 that plans are being worked out whereby tree planting 

 will be fostered in thousands of schools throughout the 

 country. The planting of a memorial tree for Lieutenant 

 Quentin Roosevelt by the pupils of Force School, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, which young Roosevelt attended while 

 living in the White House, has been a great inspiration to 



MEMORIAL TREE FOR PHILADELPHIA NURSE 



This tree, beside which Dr. Richard H. Harte, head of Base Hospital No. 10 is standing, was planted on the grounds of the Pennsylvania 

 Hospital, Philadelphia, for Miss Helen Fairchild, who died in France. Five other trees were planted in memory of men of that Base Hospital. 

 The trees have been marked by Mrs. Arthur Gerhard who registered them on the national honor roll of the American Forestry Association. 



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