Remaking the Qardens of France 



Typical destruction o( a Jv 



Till accompanying photographs tell 

 ."vivid terms more forcefully than 

 any words the tragic story of what 

 has happened to the homes and gardens 

 of northern f ranee This ^ d«t u t ^ 



mental and fruit bearing trees. n.ts a ■ ■ „ 



been accomplished with, the mahcio us p re™, on 



practical sympathy. 



Soon afterthe extent of this wan- 

 ton destruction began in some de- 

 gree to be realized a Committee 



of the I lorticultural Society of New 



York was appointed to bring relief 



to the gardeners of I' ranee. A 



fund was opened and donations 



were made from individuals and 



from various Horticultural Societies 



and Garden Clubs. Arrangements 



were made for the distribution 



of the funds in France by the Pans 



Depot of the American Fund for 



French Wounded, through Mrs. 



Latlirop. . 



This organization undertakes to 



supervise all the work for the dis- 

 tribution and plant- 

 ing, under the direct 

 supervision of Mrs. 

 Mortimer Forest of 

 St. Paul, Minnesota, 

 a graduate of the 

 Agricultural College 

 of that state, and a 

 successful fruit 

 grower. Mrs. Forest 

 generously under- 

 takes to do all the 

 work at her own ex- 

 pense so that ivtry 

 cent contributed to 

 the fund of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society of 

 NewYork is expended 

 directly for the pur- 

 chase of the necessary 

 nursery stock. 

 These arrange- 



ments were all completed last winter but tfc 

 advance of the enemy came before any acti, I 

 operations were opened, which perhaps » 

 just as well, for the entire fund amountin 

 to about £4,000 remains deposited to ttY 

 credit of the American Fund for K r . "f 

 Wounded with Morgan, Harjes & Company 

 Paris. 



It is planned to make the necessary purcha, 

 of trees, buds, and grafts from the nurseries in 

 the neighborhood of Nancy, to be delivered b" 



motor-trucks and planted under the supervision 

 of the owners assisted by French soldiers in 

 rest billets as soon as the evacuated territory 

 becomes available. 



Fruit gardens thus planted will be suitably 

 marked with the donor's name; and so far as 

 possible, the gardens of one village will all be 

 planted with trees paid for by the donation of a 

 given club or society, and suitably marked with 

 that organization's name. 



In the meantime, awaiting the recovery of the 



jand, the Horticultural Society of New York 

 m conjunction with the New York Florists Club! 

 in May last, started a second fund for the up-keep 

 of three motors costing «,2 5 per month each 

 These motors which will later be used in the 

 replanting work are now in service on the fighting 



Organizations that have contributed in addi- 

 tion to the original subscribers are the Garden 

 C ubs of Lenox Mass., Bedford, N. Y\, Hartford, 

 Ct., Ruxton, Md„ Albemarle County Va 

 Lawrence, N. Y., Ridgefield, Ct.[ 

 Short Hills, N. J„ New Rochelle, 

 N. Y., Greenwich, Ct., Plain- 

 field, N. J., Litchfield, Ct., Hor- 

 ticultural Societies of Newport 

 R. I., Nassau, N. Y., Tuxedo, N 

 Y., Rhode Island, New Trier' 

 III., Monmouth, N. J., West 

 Chester, N. Y, Fairfield, Ct., The 

 Buffalo Florists' Club, Chicago 

 Chapter of the Wild Flower Pre- 

 servation Society, American Society 

 for Horticultural Science and The 

 Wyoming Valley Chapter of the 

 American Revolution. 



Thesubscription lists arestillopen 

 for both funds and donations will be 

 thankfully received either by Mr. 

 Frederic R. Newbold, 

 Treasurer of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society of 

 New York or Mrs 

 Walter Bliss, Treas. 

 American Fund for 

 French Wounded, 73 

 Park Avenue, New 

 York City. 



There can be no 

 better medium of ex- 

 pression of the sym- 

 pathy felt by the gar- 

 deners of America for 

 their fellow craftsmen 

 in France than in con- 

 tributing as liberally 

 as possible to the 

 Tree Fund of the 

 Horticultural Society 

 for restocking the 

 gardens of France. 



o much of a job [o completely cut through 

 is girdled by axe blows 



What is left of the magnilic eat park of the Chateau Pommery al Dreslincourt 



Barbed wire ac- 

 cessory defenses 

 nm-.iriicled by the 

 1. umans in the gar- 

 dens of Amy 



An ancient Oak 



near Vau.s whiih has 



InsSl killi'll ill tlleac- 



ci.ntiil f.i-lmm wiili 

 out troubling to cut 

 it down 



