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which may shelter other generations in homes built upon the lumber 

 of trees which man, ages past, had planted. 



In choosing a site or location for a home, first of all attention 

 should be given to the matter of sanitary surroundings. A health- 

 ful situation should be selected. This must afford good drainage, 

 an elevated location, one commanding the sunlight in its fullest 

 scope, and in a position to secure pure air. Next the home grounds 

 should be easy of access, not selected close upon the street, nor yet 

 too far from a good public road, but the buildings should occupy the 

 happ3^ medium. After this comes into the plan a beautiful outlook 

 from window or lawn, commanding fine views of scenery, pleasing 

 vistas through trees, and grounds made beautiful by the abundant 

 planting of tree, shrub and vine. While we in Maine do not pos- 

 sess that extended range of tree growth and beauty which more 

 favored climatic sections of our country can boast, we yet have a 

 long list from which to select ; and out of the great variety of trees 

 indiginous to our soil there is comparatively little difficult}' in finding 

 beautiful kinds adapted to almost any situation. We have in this 

 State four species of maple, three of ash, four of birch, two of 

 cherry, two of elm, four of poplar, six of oak, and then we have 

 the beech, butternut, linden, hornbeam, mountain ash, and chest- 

 nut, besides two pines, two spruces, two balsams, with the hemlock, 

 juniper and larch. To be more particular as to number, I believe 

 our native flora comprises thirty-eight species of deciduous trees, 

 aitd eight of the coniferous or evergreens — a list from which trees 

 of almost every form, size and color of foliage — whether in June, 

 September or January, may be selected. Indeed, I think too many 

 of us are ignorant of our tree-wealth, and our nurserymen have 

 often sent abroad for trees when we have had much better ones at 

 home. Mr. Egleston, one of the forestry commissioners of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture says there are not more than fifty species of 

 forest trees in all Europe worth cultivating, while in our own country 

 we have eight hundred species, 250 of which grow to the height of 

 thirty feet, fifty to the height of 100 feet, and of the entire number, 

 fifty are of the coniferous class. A comparison of our own native 

 flora with that of the most favored portion of the old world, the 

 British Isles, would appear greatly to our advantage, if we would 

 take the opinion of a Scotch gardener, who visited this countiy some 

 three years ago, and who said, writing home to an agricultural jour- 

 nal : "I am amazed at the indifference of the Americans to the 



