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ury ; but such bounty shall not be paid any longer than such 

 line of trees is maintained." I may be pardoned for repeating 

 a personal allusion. The maples which I planted, when a 

 mere boy, before the old homestead in Litchfield county, are 

 now beautiful and stately trees. As I have often said, they 

 have paid me a thousand-fold for the work they cost, and 

 added new charms to that beautiful spot, to which I count it a 

 privilege to make an annual visit. Among the memories of 

 my boyhood, no day has recurred with such frequency and 

 satisfaction as that then devoted to tree-planting. My interest 

 in this subject is due to this incident (or perhaps accident) of 

 my boyhood. I should be thankful if I could help put a sim- 

 ilar incident, and an equally grateful experience, into the child- 

 hood of our boys of to-day. 



In tree-planting, the economic and ornamental, touch at so 

 many points that the cases are rare where they really diverge. 

 Nothing, for example, can add so much to the beauty and 

 attractiveness of our country roads as long avenues of fine 

 trees. One sees this beautifully illustrated in France, where, for 

 over a hundred miles on a stretch, the road is lined with 

 trees. In many ways the first Napoleon's interest in arbori- 

 culture proved a benefaction to France. No time should be 

 lost in securing the same grand attraction to the highways of 

 Connecticut. Growing on land otherwise running to waste, 

 such trees would yield most satisfactory returns. The shade 

 and beauty would be grateful to every traveler, but doubly so 

 to the owner and the planter, as the happy experience of many 

 Connecticut farmers can testify. A grand work in this direc- 

 tion is already well started. No class can contribute so much 

 to the adornment of our public roads as the farmers. They 

 have already in abundance the very best trees for the roadside, 

 such as the elm, maple, ash, American linden (or bass), oak, 

 and in some localities the walnut. The hard maple will thrive 

 in dry and gravelly soils, while the elm and red maple are 

 specially desirable for moist, low ground. As the maples 

 should be planted twenty-five feet apart, and the elms from 

 forty to fifty, pgplars or willows or trees growing rapidly from 

 scions, may be^placed between, to be cut down when their 

 statelier neighbors require the room for their full development. 



