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size, shape and color in the placing of the buildings. The same 

 requisites are to be observed in locating churches, school-houses, 

 town and society halls, country cemeteries and parks — the pre- 

 served pieces of natural and planted timber, keeping clear of dying 

 trees and re-planting the open interstices ; and, last but not least, 

 in my opinion, the sowing to grasses and planting of the roadsides, 

 with sufficient intervals between trees to avoid snow drifting in 

 winter and mud in summer. 



Imagine the roadsides embellished with rows of alternating 

 trees, consisting of the apple, the cherry, the plum, the evergreen, 

 the larch, the maple, the elm, the ash, the basswood, etc., thus form- 

 ing avenues of beauty and utility, and providing living posts for 

 fences when considered necessary. 



Mr. Loudon writes : "On the continent, and more especially 

 in Germany and Switzerland, the cherry is much used as a road-side 

 tree. In Moravia, the road from Brunn to Olmutz passes through 

 such an avenue, extending upwards of sixty miles in length, and 

 we traveled for several days through almost one continuous avenue 

 of cherry trees, from Shasburg by a circuitous route to Munich. 

 These avenues in Germany are planted by the respective govern- 

 ments, not only for shading the traveler, but in order that the poor 

 pedestrian may obtain refreshment on his journey." 



How often we who have fruit growing near the highway are 

 thoroughly tried by the petty depredations of the youth who pass 

 or live in the neighborhood. But how can we wonder, knowing 

 that their home premises lack fruit of any kind, either from inability 

 to furnish it or from the want of interest by their parents in the 

 best welfare of their children. 



When and where the above suggestions have been carried out, 

 to a lesser or greater extent, whether by the rich or the middle class, 

 what has been the effect upon the citizens of such localities, as are 

 recorded in history and noted by experience? We find that the poor 

 Indian in his barbarism was led to adore the Great Spirit by gazing 

 upon the picturesque beauty of nature in its primeval simplicity. 

 The same is known to be true of savages of all climes and surround- 

 ings. How many times greater, then, the appreciation by and in- 

 fluence upon such men as John Burroughs and John Muir ! And 

 how elevating and ennobling to those, who, by birth, surroundings 

 and teaching, are enabled to appreciate and incorporate within their 

 own being the beauty and grandeur of nature, which they are en- 

 abled to place before us, through their burning words, proceeding 

 from enthusiastic enjoyment of scenery, perceived by the sense of 

 sight ! 



