56 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



NORFOLK. 



• Statement of CJieever Neivhall. 



By the publications of our society I have learned that the 

 subject of encouraging the planting of forest trees has engaged 

 the attention of its meml^ers from its formation ; that in the 

 year 1852, the very liberal premivims of thirty and twenty dol- 

 lars were ofiered to any citij or toion in the county, for the larg- 

 est number and best growth of ornamental trees, which shall 

 be planted in any public square, or on the road-side. Subse- 

 quently a premium of ten dollars was offered to the individiiao 

 who should plant in like manner the largest number. No 

 application, I understand, has hitherto been made for either 

 premium. 



I respectfully request the trustees to examine those I have 

 planted on the road-side for shade and ornament, part of them 

 bordering my own lands, and part in front of the lands of 

 others, in the immediate vicinity ; they are mostly from two to 

 three rods apart, and are all in a thrifty condition, in number 

 and variety as follows : — 



When it is considered that a beautiful tree, overarching the 

 road-side or bordering some broad avenue, where it can grow 

 and develop itself on all sides, is one of the finest pictures of 

 symmetry and proportion that the eye can anywhere meet 

 with, I am astonished at the indifference and neglect prevailing 

 in nearly every part of the country. 



Should this communication have even a remote tendency to 

 awaken in the county an interest in the subject, my object in 

 making it will be attained. 



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Dorchester, November 10, 1855. 



