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Judicious planting is beneficial, both in a healthful and 

 financial point of view, and should be given every encour- 

 agement. 



Your committee were not called upon to visit any plan- 

 tations of six hundred or more trees, but the present offer 

 of the Society is wise, and it might even be well to offer 

 a prize for a still larger plantation, in view of the in- 

 creased interest in encouraging the preservation of forests 

 around the sources of our water supplies. 



A prize for over six hundred and not over two thousand 

 trees might be substituted for our present large offer ; and 

 a prize for over two thousand trees might be added. 

 Probably very few would enter for the latter, but the ob- 

 ject is good, and good objects is what this Society seeks 

 to encourage. 



Your committee would respectfully submit this report, 

 trusting that it will meet with the approval of the Board 

 of Trustees. 



FRANCIS H. APPLETON, Chairman. 



STATEMENT OF BENJAMIN P. WARE. 



To the Committee on Forest Trees: — 



I desire to make the following statement regarding the 

 ornamental trees which I offer for premium. The row of 

 rock maples growing along the avenue through the farm, 

 forty-five in number and thirty feet apart, were taken from 

 the woods of natural growth forty years ago, and when 

 set were about two inches in diameter, and cut off at an 

 equal height often feet from the ground. This gave them 

 the appearance of bare poles, and caused them to put out 

 branches from the top, thus adding to the beauty of the 

 whole row by the uniformity of their branches. These 



