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if ordered in time, get them from some one else. But if 

 you fail to get what you want, go to the woods, seek out a 

 grove of second growth, and dig elm, maple, linden, 

 hackberry, walnut, etc., and plant and care for them 

 properly, and you and your posterity will be more than 

 satisfied with the result. 



A GOOD HIGHWAY LAW. Tree planting in this great 

 prairie state should be vigorously pushed to the front. 

 The legislature of Michigan has recently passed an act to 

 encourage highway planting, which provides, under certain 

 restrictions, that every man planting along the road bor- 

 dering his own property shall be credited twenty-five 

 cents on his highway tax for every tree so planted. Let 

 us urge upon the next legislature the importance of such a 

 law, to remain in force until every country road shall 

 become an avenue of living green, adding beauty to the 

 landscape, value to the adjacent farms, and causing the 

 weary traveler to bless the far-seeing men who planned 

 and built these living monuments. Also the importance 

 of providing for the improvement and ornamentation of 

 our public school-houses and grounds. With such laws 

 on our statute books, and Arbor Day properly observed, 

 in a few years our noble state, for which nature has 

 done so much and man so little, will be one of the most 

 beautiful spots of earth. 



SOME DON'TS. In response to a number of correspond- 



