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their symmetrical proportions. United and decisive action on 

 the part of city and town officials, demanding the recon- 

 struction of their lines on higher poles, alone will prove the 

 remedy. 



While much has been done of late in this embellishment of 

 our streets and road-sides with shade trees, we have but few 

 drives that have become prominent for their shade and attrac- 

 tiveness, that are the results of the labors of some of our public- 

 spirited and tree loving citizens, 30 or 40 years ago. 



I can recall nothing more beautiful and effective in the way 

 of roadside ornamentation, than the double rows of magnificent 

 Norway Maples that over-arch Lovell St., southerly from May 

 St., which were planted by our esteemed fellow-citizen O. B. 

 Had wen. 



A short section of May street west of June street speaks 

 words of living praise for the labor of the Hartshorn family in 

 the planting of Sugar Maples, while a long stretch on the 

 Grafton road planted with the American White Ash, per- 

 petuates the memory of the late Darius Rice. 



We take much pride in many small groups of trees and 

 some magnificent single specimens that adorn the homes and 

 road-sides of our rural citizens, but we cannot point to a single 

 mile of continuous shade upon any suburban road, from trees 

 of twenty-five or more years of age. It is to encourage this 

 road-side embellishment by the preservation and planting of 

 suitable shade trees upon the treeless roads around this city, 

 that has prompted the consideration of this subject to-day. 



While I have been greatly impressed with the grandeur and 

 sublimity of the natural scenery of the country, that it has 

 been my privilege to visit and gaze upon, I still hold in high 

 veneration those marked features of the landscape, where the 

 work of nature has been supplemented by the hand of man, in 

 the laying out of broad avenues, and the planting of road-side 

 trees. 



What is it that most impresses the visitor to our rural town 

 of Lancaster? Nothing more nor less than its broad central 

 avenues overarched with stately elms, planted early in the 

 present century. 



