112 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1892, 



imity to the boundary wall or fence, or far enough distant 

 therefrom to allow a foot-walk six or more feet, between the 

 trees selected and the boundary line. 



While this should apply to the trees of smaller dimensions 

 which are to be designated for preservation, in the instance of 

 an occasional tree which may be found between these lines, 

 that have reached nearly to their maximum height and breadth, 

 the owners of adjacent land would do honor to themselves and 

 confer blessings upon posterity by giving to the highway, suf- 

 ficient land to allow a foot-walk on the one side, and an ample 

 road-bed in the line of travel on the other, so that these noble 

 " Sons of the Forest" may be fully preserved. 



Whenever the tree to be preserved can be found standing 

 close to the boundary lines, the chances of its being left undis- 

 turbed are far greater than those six feet or more distant there- 

 from, when they so often become hitching posts for careless and 

 thoughtless drivers, or the victims of barbarous treatment at 

 the hands of Road Repairers with their death-dealing road 

 machines or ploughs or scrapers. 



While we have alluded thus far only to such road-side trees 

 as have sprung up as by chance, and have now reached suf- 

 ficient size to be designated for permanent preservation, it may 

 not be out of place to note the plans abopted by the Worcester 

 Parks-Commission in the planting of shade trees on the city 

 thoroughfares or highways in the suburbs. 



In the city proper no trees are planted until the grades of the 

 streets have been permanently established by the City Engi- 

 neer, and the curb stones placed in their permanent position. 



They are planted 8 inches inside the curb, and distant from 

 each other from 35 to 40 feet. 



Where trees have been planted under these directions, out- 

 side the curbstone limit by private individuals, they recom- 

 mend a distance of 40 to 50 feet, and within one foot of the 

 wall or fence, or either six or seven feet distant therefrom, 

 being governed somewhat by the width of the highway, where 

 the trees are planted. 



While this work of planting shade trees has been carried on 

 very successfully by the Commission for many years, and over 



