38 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



President Dunlap— As to planting trees by the roadsides, I think 

 they should not be put on the east and south, but on the north and 

 west. Our soil will not bear much shading, so we should not put 

 them on the south, if we want good roads ; and then we don't need 

 shade in the forenoon, and therefore the east side does not re- 

 quire trees. Then in hot afternoons it is pleasant to have shade 

 trees on the west, and on the north is not objectionable. 



Mr. Pearson — In some of the old countries they consider it quite 

 an art to make what they call "Pollards" of the trees. They cut 

 out the top and make the head closer. I have read of Pollard 

 Oaks in England three hundred or four hundred years old. In 

 Central Park, New York, are some beautiful trees, some with 

 beautiful round heads that at a little distance one would not 

 recognize the tree at all, and yet they are nothing but a common 

 willow. Such trees trimmed with a round head are ornamental 

 and are not readily injured by storms. That way of .treating trees 

 is also common with Lombardy Poplars which is a poor tree. 

 They cut them back and make a tree with trunk three feet in 

 diameter, but the head will be close and thick. 



TUESDAY KVENINQ 



YOUNG PEOPLE ON THE FARM. 



BY MISS LUCY BRYANT, PRINCETON. 



Farming to-day, with its improved machinery of all kinds for 

 lightening labor, is not what it was when our parents and grand- ■ 

 parents were young. Work that was heavy drudgery then, re- 

 quiring much time and patience, is now accomplished with ease 

 and rapidity. 



Owing to these many improvements, the young people of 

 to-day have much more leisure for social enjoyments and 

 pleasures than those of half a century ago. However, I am sure 

 we do not enjoy ourselves more than they did, and perhaps do 

 riot appreciate our privileges as we ought. 



To my mind there has always been a nameless charm connected 

 with the stories told by our grandparents of the good old days 

 gone by, when " apple-parings '," "husking bees" and merry- 

 makings of a similar kind were enjoyed by young and old, and a 



