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away, that the sunlight shoiihl he let in and the roads hard-surfaced. 

 We saw in our trip th it where tiu' trees sliaded the roads they were 

 almost impassable nl tinus. whih' in the ()j)eM pK'iees, they were fine. 



In Michigan we took up the (|uestion of roadside planting, and 

 Senator Penny fathered the bill, the pioneer measure, that caused (mr 

 state to plant roadways. We h.ive a \ery competent landscape engnneer 

 in charge of one of the departiifeuts. :ind he is planning to gTOW road- 

 side trees, using nut-bearing trees, so that the next generation will 

 profit largely by the work of today. And this is just because of this 

 association. 



When I was honored with your ])residency. one of the features of 

 tile work we carried on was in getting nut trees from historic places, 

 especially from Mt. Vernon. The Superintendent of ]Mt. Vernon 

 very kindly told us that we could iia\e the walnut crop from trees that 

 were started there during Washington's time, and the only stipulation 

 was that we should not commercialize the ide i ; that those nuts were 

 priceless, and that we should not receive any money for them, but 

 should distribute them in the schools and in a ))ublic w.iy cause interest 

 in the planting of nut trees. That very movement brought a'bout won- 

 derful results, and today there are from (ive to ten thousand walnut 

 trees growing in our state, about the heigiit of a man, all of tliem hav- 

 ing come from Mt. Vernon. 



On our way throug^h from White Sulphur Springs, we passed 

 througli the home of Thomas Jefferson, .Monticello, and we found some 

 magnificent nut trees planted by Jefferson. Some of our best trees 

 today are from those given to AVaslvington by Thoiiias Jefferson; and I 

 arranged at Mt. Vernon to secure some of the nuts from the trees 

 Jefferson planted there. 



Just yesterday Mr. Dodge, the superintendent at .Mt. Vernon, 

 again said that we could hiwe tlie crop for this yeir. ^^V will liave a 

 number of busliels from there, although the trees have not been as 

 fruitful this year as usual, and I leave it to you to judge as to wliat 

 we should do with those nuts this year. Some of you have ideas about 

 this, and I would be gl'id to adopt them. But when tlic fact is known 

 that the walnuts can be secured in that way the entire country will 

 want them. At jiresent I have letters from Texas and other places ask- 

 ing for some of Mt. Vernon's nuts. It is a movement that will cause 

 more people, in my opinion, to have nut trees than any other, and we 

 should push it to the limit. 



