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your county. In the opinion of the Board, you could perform no act 

 likely to result in such undoubted and general benefit to your county 

 and people as the placing upon your records the proper orders for car- 

 rying into effect the provisions of the above law. We could name many 

 reasons in favor of your action in this respect, but we do not deem it 

 necessary. These reasons will occur to every intelligent mind, and we 

 trust will secure your early and favorable action, so that the tree plant- 

 ing may be initiated and executed to a considerable extent during the 

 approaching planting season. We would suggest, however, that no 

 trees be allowed to be planted nearer than twelve feet from each other; 

 that trees between three and eight years from the seed would be pre- 

 ferable as to age, and would recommend the following varieties as 

 hard} 7 , of rapid growth, and many of them valuable for wood or timber: 



Black and Honey Locusts; Black, White, and Fruiting Mulberry; 

 Osage Orange, Native and Eastern Black Walnut; American Chestnut; 

 European, American, and Cork Bark Elm; the different kinds of Maple; 

 the Tulip Tree; Carolina, Lombardy, and Silver Leaf Poplar; different 

 kinds of Ash; the Apple, Pear, Plum, Cherry, Almond, and Fig, Euca- 

 lyptus, or Australian Blue and Eed Gum; Monterey Pine, Sugar Pine, 

 Yellow Pine, Spruce Pine, Norway Spruce, Balsam Fir, Scotch Pine, 

 Eui'opean Larch, Monterey Cypress, Italian Cypress, California Eed- 

 wood, California Laurel, and such other kinds as your Board may deem 

 of value for your county. 



Hoping you will take early and favorable action in this important 

 matter, we are, respectfully, etc., by order of the Board, 



EOBT. BECK, Secretary. 



