316 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



such bounty shall not be paid for more than ten years, or any 

 longer than such line of trees is maintained." This bounty, though 

 small, has had an effect to call attention to, and to stimulate street 

 tree-planting. There is, however, a radical error in its well-meant 

 sentiment, viz : in making the distance thirty feet instead of forty 

 or fifty feet. It is not a dense hedge we like to see for street trees, 

 but a line of grand, well-developed, symmetrical trees. The black 

 walnut, or Norway maple, would, when mature, occupy double the 

 specified distance. Prizes have been offered in several towns of 

 our State for the best efforts in tree-planting, and we know that 

 in many towns where no prizes have been offered a very com- 

 mendable spirit has been shown in planting, by the highways, 

 lines of beautiful trees; let the good work go on. Many a rough place 

 may in this way be made very attractive. The great variety of 

 trees which flourish in our climate offer abundant material at low 

 cost to the lover of the beautiful. The planting of memorial trees 

 should also be encouraged. 



On the very day of the battle of Lexington, a bride from Windham, 

 Conn., took, on a horse, lashed to the saddle behind her, three elms 

 from her father's farm to her new home in Woodstock; there they 

 stand to-day, a grand memorial of our national history, and repre- 

 sent also a prominent era in the hfe of the fair planter. And who 

 can wonder that the descendants of that ancient couple look upon 

 those trees of ancestral planting with honest pride ? 



TIMBER-PLAKTING ON CHEAP LAND. 



A public act was passed a few years since, exempting from taxa- 

 tion land not assessed higher than $15 per acre, which shall have 

 been planted with valuable kinds of timber-trees, specified in the 

 act, for a period of ten years after the plantation be made. (As the 

 act has already appeared in these reports it is not given here.) 



We have in many sections of our State waste land, land which 

 may be bought at from $2 to $10 per acre, land nearly valueless, 

 which if producing anything it is only trashy kinds of wood which 

 can be of no great value; such lands bought at their present value 

 can be made a hundred-fold better by systematic planting with 

 chestnut, ash, oak, pine, European larch, hickory, or such other 

 valuable timber as the land may be suited for. We thereby make 

 a permanent, valuable investment, desirable in itself and valuable 

 also in its climatic influence. 



