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yonder in the valley; a tall growing tree or trees that shall serve as a 

 land mark for leagues away. Low, clumpy trees clustered around long 

 larches, tall elms, or even while it shall last, around a Lombardy poplar. 

 Avenues along which shall be that beauty that comes of variety and 

 contrast in size, form, shades of color and differences of leaves of all 

 the kinds and infinite millions in number. 



OUR ELMS 

 are of a vaHety of marked styles from the spreading, almost weeping, 

 White Elm, to the tall Red Elm that sways so easily in the winter's gale, 

 or waves its leaf laden boughs so gracefully to the passing summer 

 breeze. 



The Burr Oak with its sturdy body and its wide spread top of large 

 leaves, the Red and the Scarlet Oaks, with their prolonged season of their 

 own particular beauty of colors and of forms may well find many a place 

 here and there among our wayside trees. 



The Ash, beautiful, clothed or naked, should have a frequent place. 



The Sugar Maple can scarcely be planted too much or in too 

 many places. 



An occasional Sycamore with its white arms, its fine foliage, and 

 its bark that peels off for a curiosity, will be in good taste. 



A few Kentucky Coffee trees are well when they will be in their 

 appropriate place. 



Wild Cherry trees, one in a place, on rich soil, will grow into beau- 

 tics in a few years, and last a long time. 



Chestnut trees have much to recommend them — especially the nuts 

 they bear. 



Both Black and White Walnuts may have a few places on the best 

 soil, low down, for their fruit particularly. 



The heavy, strong growing Austrian Pine, the tall, lithe, graceful 

 and most beautiful White Pine, the Red Pine, the tall Norway Spruce, 

 with its peculiar form, and its own beauty for the year around; the White 

 Fir, with its silvered leaves, the Red Cedar, at home everywhere, and 

 rarely out of place, and perhaps a few others would fill out my list of 

 evergreens. 



THE LARCHES, 

 especially the European Larch, sending heavenward its long, tapering 

 body, carrying its even growth of many short limbs beautiful in its sum- 

 mer dress, and in its winter undress, may be either on a hill, a slope, or a 

 valley. 



There is material enough from which to preserve, or to build, vast 

 beauty and utility all along the 60,000 miles of roads in Missouri. In 



