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for the region through which they pass those 

 ameliorating climatic influences and those bene- 

 ficial effects upon agriculture which forests are 

 adapted to produce. 



Finally, we name, not so much on the score 

 of profit or advantage, as of comfort and taste, 

 our common roads and the streets of our cities 

 and villages, as appropriate places for the plant- 

 ing of trees. What else is there that gives such 

 a charm to many of the villages in the older 

 parts of our country, and especially to many of 

 the New England villages, as the lines of noble, 

 graceful trees which border and often overarch 

 their streets, and whose beauty every one sees 

 and feels ? The beauty and charm are so mani- 

 fest to the dullest nature almost, that as popula- 

 tion has spread into newer regions, road-side 

 planting has been often repeated. In many 

 cases, however, there has been neglect in this 

 particular, and in all parts of the country there 

 are places where, by a comparatively little ex- 

 pense in planting the proper trees along the 

 street-borders, villages and towns now unat- 

 tractive and even forbidding in appearance, per- 

 haps, would be transformed into inviting places 



