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tion is reaping a full reward of this gift to the next. 

 Every village now is coming to be embowered in this 

 green legacy to the future ; like a young mother 

 decorating a Christmas-tree for her children. Towns 

 two hundred years old are taking the names of this 

 diversified architecture, and they glory in the title. 

 New Haven, with a college second to none on the 

 American Continent, loves to be called "The Elm. 

 City," before any other name. This generous and 

 elevating taste is making its way from ocean to ocean, 

 even marking the sites of towns and villages before 

 they are built. I believe there is an act of the 

 Connecticut Legislature now in force, which allows 

 every farmer a certain sum of money for every tree 

 he plants along the public roadside of his fields. The 

 object of this is to line all the highways of the State 

 with ornamental trees, so that each shall be a well- 

 shaded avenue. What a gift to another generation 

 that simple act is intended to make ! What a world 

 of wonder and delight will our little State be to 

 European travellers and tourists of the next century, 

 if this measure shall be carried out ! If a few miles 

 of such avenues as Burghley park and Chatsworth 

 present, command such admiration, what sentiments 

 would a continuous avenue of trees of equal size 

 from Hartford to New Haven, inspire ! 



