■36 STATE rOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Parker Holt, New Gloucester. I like the idea of planting 

 apple trees along the highways, but it is our dut}' to teach the farmers 

 to prune up their apple trees. Cut the limbs twice a year with a fine- 

 tooth saw about six inches from the trunk ; then after the limb is off 

 cut again close and carefully to the tree trunk. The wound will 

 heal quickly and the trees will bear large and beautiful fruit. 



Mr. J. W. True, New Gloucester. I do not favor the planting 

 of fruit trees along the highways. The}' branch out low down, and 

 I very much prefer the planting of shade trees. If the valuable 

 trees now growing along the highways could be marked in some way 

 «o the surveyors and road commissioners would not cut them down 

 indiscriminately, it would be a great advantage. 



Mr. Atherton. I believe more attention should be given to the 

 cultivation of flowers among the farmers. They should be growing 

 :about every country home. 



Mr. Charles P. Haskell. I am interested in planting trees along 

 the highways. The apple tree is beautiful in its place ; the shade 

 tree is beautiful in its place ; where is the place of each? The broad 

 branches of the elm extend wide over the lawn, and it is longer 

 lived than the apple tree. I have cleared away the rubbish thrown 

 upon the road-side by the road commissioners, but I think the owners 

 of land should act together in this matter. It would be an excel- 

 lent idea if towns were required to line the highways with shade 

 trees. The only way to keep rubbish out of the highways is to ed- 

 ucate the people up to the beautifying of the highways. 



Mr. Lewis F. Starrett, Rockland. I am in favor of setting 

 trees along the highways. I think there should be a variet}- of the 

 trees growing in our forests. There is no necessity of planting trees 

 in lines. The grower ma}- shape a tree much as he may choose by 

 judicious pruning and training. 



Hon. P. M. Augur, Connecticut. I am in full sympathy with 

 the ideas advanced upon utility and sentiment. The boys and girls 

 should be taught to love their own homes the best of any place, and 

 the adorning of homes by shade trees has very much to do with the 

 development of that love. A few years since I removed sev^eral 

 rods of fence along the street, and it became town talk. At first 

 the stock tiH)ubled us a little and we were obliged to yard the cattle 

 once or twice, but now the grass grows beautifully along the road- 

 side and our mowing machine is run up to the road without difficulty. 



