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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



thousands. The American Forestry Association received 

 the following telegram in regard to it : 



"We wish to express our appreciation of your action. 

 So many of my brother's happiest associations were 

 connected with the old Force School. 



"Theodore Roosevelt." 



With the planting of that tree there was adopted a 

 plan which is being put forward in many schools. There 

 is at Force School a self-perpetuating "Quentin Roosevelt 

 Memorial Tree Committee." Miss Janet McWilliam, 

 the principal, appointed a member of each class as a 

 committee to care for the tree and this committee is to 

 remain on the school rolls through the simple process of 

 allowing each member to name his successor when he 

 passes to another class. In this way there will be a tree 

 committee at Force School as long as the tree and the 



THE TREE PLANTING AT KEARNEY, CALIFORNIA 



This is part of the crowd that witnessed the tree planting, and 

 General Strong stands in the center of this group. 



school shall stand. The members of this first committee 

 are : Oliver Gasch, 8A ; Frank Norris, 7B ; Earl Moser, 

 7 A ; George Wales, 6B ; Alice Spalding, 6A ; Burke 

 Edwards, 5B ; Virginia Douglas, 5A ; Nell Tysen, 4B ; 

 Nancy Fair, 4A ; Mary Church, 3B ; Lindsay Payson, 2B, 

 and Dorothy Harrison, iB. At the planting of the tree 

 the tree day program of the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion was used. The pupils who were assigned to "What 

 the Tree Teaches Us," were : Lillian Rixey, Edna Kelley, 

 Miriam Latterner, Duncan Bradley, Henry Wilson, 

 Richard Bedon, Juliet Frost, Oliver Gasch, Virginia 

 Fourier, Anna Hereford, Margaret Watts, Robert T. 

 Norman, Harry Lamberton, Roger Robb. 



But tree planting is not a matter of this year or even 

 of next, for the country is now experiencing, through 

 the efforts of the association, a great campaign of edu- 

 cation as to trees. A fine example of what comes of 

 tree planting propaganda is seen at Rockford, Illinois, 

 where a tract of 150 acres has been purchased by the 



Park Board and named "Memorial Park." The inten- 

 tion is, Paul B. Riis, the superintendent, informs the 

 association, to plant a memorial tree in the park for every 

 man who enlisted from the county. This means that 

 somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,500 trees will be 

 planted. Playgrounds, golf links and picnic grounds are 

 to have trees. Are the members of the American For- 

 estry Association awake to the good work that can be 

 done by each one in his locality if he or she will but take 

 the lead? John A. Collier Wright, of Gilbertsville, New 

 York, is working for plans for reforesting and for "Roads 

 of Remembrance" in Otsego County. He reports to the 

 association that a survey in Broome County shows there 

 are 14,000 acres of waste land suitable for reforesting. 

 Frederick W. Kelsey, of New York City, contributed a 

 fine letter to the New York Times in regard to the work 

 of the association, which that paper used in full. It will 

 be seen that the newspapers are eager to hear about the 

 values of tree planting particularly if they hear it from 

 their own readers. 



Where there are trees is where the association finds 

 the keenest activity for having more trees. This is par- 

 ticularly true of California where the California Federa- 

 tion of Women's Clubs, through Mrs. P. B. Goss, chair- 

 man of the department of conservation, is making plans 



THE FIRST SHOVEL FULL OF EARTH 



The first shovel of dirt for the memorial tree planting at Camp 

 Kearney, California, was turned_ by Mrs. Isabella Churchill, of the 

 Colorado State Society of San Diego. 



for an active campaign for memorial tree planting. In 

 Georgia Mrs. Julia Lester Dillon, of the same organiza- 

 tion had thirty-one district clubs planting a Memorial 

 Park on Arbor Day in each district. Georgia will carry 

 off the blue ribbon, if one is awarded, for memorial 

 tree planting if other states do not hurry. The year 1920 

 will be a big one in tree planting and each member of the 

 association can help to make it bigger. The time to 

 start is now. 



WHEN MEMORIAL TREES ARE PLANTED PLEASE INFORM THE AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY ASSOCIATION, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



