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grown in an avenue, or where they have full space to de- 

 velop. Now there are many districts where the native 

 luxuriance of the oak woods points out the perfect adapta- 

 tion of the soil for this tree. If we mistake not, such is 

 the case where that charming rural town in this state, Can- 

 andaigua, stands. Yet we confess we were not a little 

 pained in walking through the streets of Canandaigua the 

 past season to find them mainly lined with that compara- 

 tively meagre tree, the locust. How much finer and more 

 imposing, for the long principal street of Canandaigua, 

 would be an avenue of our finest and hardiest native oaks, 

 rich in foliage and grand in every part of their trunks and 

 branches.* 



Though we think our native elm or sugar maple and two 

 or three of our oaks the finest of street trees for country 

 villages, yet there are a great many others which may be 

 adopted, when the soil is their own, with the happiest effect. 

 What could well be more beautiful, for example, for a village 

 with a deep, mellow soil, than a long avenue of that tall 

 and most elegant tree, the tulip-tree or whitewood? For a 

 village in a mountainous district, like New Lebanon, in this 

 state, we would perhaps choose the white pine, which would 

 produce a grand and striking effect. In Ohio, the cucumber- 

 tree would make one of the noblest and most admirable 

 avenues, and at the south what could be conceived more 

 captivating than a village whose streets were lined with 

 rows of Magnolia grandiflora? We know how little com- 

 mon minds appreciate these natural treasures; how much 

 the less because they are common in the woods about them. 

 Still, such are the trees which should be planted; for fine 

 forest trees are fast disappearing, and planted trees, grown 

 in a soil fully congenial to them, will, as we have already said, 

 assume a character of beauty and grandeur that will arrest 

 the attention and elicit the admiration of every traveller. 



* The oak is easily transplanted from the nurseries, though not 

 from the woods, unless in the latter ease, it has been prepared a year be- 

 forehand by shortening the roots and branches. -- A. J. D. The oaks 

 are nowadays being very successfully used in street planting throughout 

 the eastern and southern states. F. A. W. 



