I think that I shall never see, a poem lovely as a tree.

Between April 1945 and May, 1948, my grandparents, their friends, my father and my future mother, would plant 19,000 trees on the property our family now owns on the Pigeon River. 

Here are the notations from the books:

4/25-26-27-28/45   1,000 Jack Pine, 1,000 White Pine, 1,000 Norway Pine

10/15/45    3,000 Spruce, 1,000 Jack Pine

9/21/46    500 Red Pine, 1,500 Spruce, 1,000 Douglas Fir, 1,000 Jack Pine

5/5/47    500 Jack Pine, 1,000 Red Pine, NE of Cabin

10/2-3-4/47    500 White Spruce, 1,500 Jack Pine, 1,000 Red Pine on E & W side of Driveway on N 80

5/7-8/48    1,000 Jack Pine, 1,000 Spruce, 1,000 Ponderosa Pine, 500 Scotch Pine