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ist had spent his life in a town with fifty or eighty miles of 

 road, if he happened to be one of the fathers of the town 

 and was called upon to keep the brush from the carriages 

 that travel on the roads, he would find that there were too 

 many trees by the roadside, — not in the villages. That is 

 the great complaint to which the highway surveyors and 

 county commissioners have to listen: "Why don't you 

 keep the roads clear of trees?" My friends come down 

 from Worcester in their nice carriages and they say, " AYe 

 can't drive in these roads ; they are all trees and brush." 

 There is no need of setting out trees there. 



Another thing. He says we want to set out trees in 

 cemeteries. In 1848, when I was a young man, I helped to 

 lay out, with my friends, a cemetery in my town, and spent 

 a good deal of money, a good deal of time and a good deal 

 of labor in setting out trees, and there has not been a year 

 for the last twenty years that the selectmen have not been 

 petitioned and begged and entreated to have those trees 

 taken down. Why ? Because they were injuring the tomb- 

 stones ; it was unfashionable. That has a good deal to do 

 ivith it. This very year a cemetery is l^eing laid out in my 

 neighborhood by a corporation where I am told thirty thou- 

 sand dollars are to be expended, and one of the provisions 

 of the deeds is that no trees are to be set out. It is not 

 fashionable. Green grass, fountains and flowers inside, trees 

 on the outside. It is all right, I suppose. I have always 

 ol)jected to cutting down the trees in this cemetery that I 

 assisted in laying out, but I have always been beaten. This 

 very last year two trees that I helped set out in 1848, more 

 than a foot and a half through, were cut down and carried 

 off because the owners of the lots near them said they could 

 not have any tombstones or any monuments if the trees 

 were allowed to remain. In waste places, I agree, sir, and 

 in some cases, along the roadsides, and through the villages, 

 trees may be planted ; but my friends in the city of Wor- 

 cester have been cutting down the elms on Main street that 

 I have looked at for sixty years. Some people opposed it, 

 and went to the Supreme Court to prevent it, but the city 

 cut them down and everybody says, " How much better it 



