Canadian Forestry Journal, October, 1917 



1367 



Gifts of Trees to Northern France 



(Editorial from the Philadelphia Bulletin.) 



It is interesting that the nursery- 

 men of the country, assembled here 

 in convention, are considering the 

 proposal of reforesting Northern 

 France at their own expense. This 

 is the plan of Prince Poniatowski, a 

 name familiar to all students of Na- 

 poleonic literature, and while our 

 nurserymen cannot do all of the re- 

 planting of friiit and shade trees 

 which the Boches have destroyed, 

 they seem willing to do their share 

 and to make it easy for other philan- 

 thropists to co-operate. 



It is well known that as the Ger- 

 mans have been driven back from 

 their original line they have left 

 only a desert behind them. Every- 

 thing has been destroyed except the 

 soil, and that has been so badly cut 

 up that it will be long ere it produces 



its normal yield. The annual crops 

 are to be restored much sooner than 

 the vineyards, orchards and shade 

 trees. It will be remembered that 

 Professor Ferrero tells in one of his 

 histories that in a single year Sparta- 

 cus and his revolting gladiators did 

 more damage to Italy than Hannibal 

 did in seventeen. This was because 

 the latter destroyed simply the annual 

 crops, which meant the loss of only 

 a year's income, but by the time of 

 Spartacus the olive and the vine had 

 replaced grain in Italy, and it took 

 years to replace them. 



This is the case with Northern 

 France. It needs fruit trees and 

 vines to replace those which were 

 destroyed, and several years will be 

 necessary to restore former conditions. 

 It may be that the nurserymen will 



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