Show In n YOur Own OW F. F AMERICAN TREES i ABROAD ABROu Long before t the Christian era there was a woman of Egypt who started the business of at carrying g the plants of one country to another This was Queen blessings bless bless- S ings on her memory I have no space here to recount to you her glamorous doings in the dim p past st but her habit of ot sending men inca in ships to get both seeds seeds' and plants from other parts of at the known then globe has had wide and astonishing results Moreover today there are foU folks folks' who still carry on her idea in spreading plants over the face of pf the world Charles Lathrop Pack president of the American Tree association is one of th the most ardent preachers of the gospel of tree planting that we have In January 1920 after Europe was trying to get her breath following the he holocaust t of war Mr Pack sent broad abroad millions and nd millions millions mil mu- lions of ot tree s seeds eds' eds gathered in American forests as a goo good will offering and also as his part in helping to heal scars which war had left on the f fair ii fac faces s of European European Euro Euro- S Toda Today Toda those srn small see seeds s Jive as large Jarge forests From Frain tho the nurseries n where they were planted and cared for under expert supervision they were transplanted to denuded areas and nd at the time of of them are 20 f et taIL The were mostly Sitka and d' d Douglas Douglas Douglas Doug Doug- las fir coniferous evergreens of both bot extreme beauty and great value commercially I ITh Th The Th British forestry association planted its share of ot the seedlings among imong the Seo Scottish lochs along the Caledonian canal In the Deaneries of ot England in nor northern Ireland and andIn andIn In n the King George Georg in Wales Vales I have there are readers of at this column who I I were born rr localities or whose immediate ancestors were They a thrill I am sure to to know that seeds gathered among the Cascade mountains mountains' of ot our I American Pacific northwest are arenow arenow now towering towerIng- in mighty forests fores In Inthe I the old countries where virtually i every very tree was cut down to fill the needs of f war Ev Every ry tw two years ears the British forestry forestry for for- estry commission checks up up on the plantings The American trees frequently Ire fre thrive even better in the European countries than they did didIn didIn didin in their native haunts strange as asIt asit asit it ma may seem And not only In the Ute British Isles are aro the seeds of the American trees covering wars war's scars but also in France Franc Belgium and It Italy ly T r like to think of ot those tre trees s spreading a doctrine of good will and helpfulness helpful helpful- ness dont don't you I QUERIES E E. J J. J N. N Salt Lake City writes I raise small as a hobby bobby but they do donot not seem to be doing as well as they ah should ud Will you kindly Inform me as to where I book of evergreens ever ever- can get a on care ever evergreens greens f 1 Answer There is an excellent book in the public library called Cultivated Evergreens Also I 1 advise you to write to Professor Paul M Dunn state agricultural college Logan and tell him your troubles I know he ha will be de delighted delighted de- de lighted lIghte to h help lp you |