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roadway itself, due to objectional features found along 

 the highway or where the country is such as to be most 

 monotonous in its character. In such instances heavy 

 mass plantings of the trees or shrubs can be utilized on 



willow may be planted to advantage, as such trees never 

 reach a size which will interfere with the overhead wires. 

 In other instances it has been found possible to so train 

 the large growing species that their crowns may grow 

 above the wires. Where tree planting is found imprac- 

 tical due to these conditions, it is always possible to mass 

 in large clumps of shrub material, preferably of stock 

 indigenous* to the surrounding region. That we have 

 such an obstacle before us should however not tend to 



BARE AND UNSIGHTLY WITHOUT TREES 

 A splendid argument in favor of tree planting along our highways. 



either side of the highway cutting the view from the 

 roadside, thus making the element of the picture the 

 roadway itself. 



An obstacle in our tree planting work which must be 

 given due consideration in that along practically every 

 main highway we are confronted with many overhead 

 wires. That these are necessary is duly recognized and 

 it no doubt will be many years before we can expect any 

 adequate system of underground wiring throughout the 

 countryside. In many places where this problem must be 

 solved, trees such as the dogwood, hawthorne, sumac, and 



AN ATTRACTIVE BIT OF ROAD 

 Native sumach is used for this planting. 



stop our efforts for more and better tree planting in 

 such places. 



The ultimate width of the improved highway is also a 

 present-day problem, for it is realized that in many 

 places where such improved roadways today are only 

 fifteen to twenty feet in width, eventually with the greater 



A SPLENDID EXAMPLE OF ROADSIDE PLANTING 

 These beautiful trees grow well above the overhead wires, which are sometimes quite hard to dispense with in the country. 





