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ways and land-owners, to unite in trying to preserve rows 

 of deciduous trees on our roadsides, where nature has 

 been the planter. Where roadways run in an east of 

 west direction, advantage can be taken of the opportunity 

 to plant or preserve our beautiful white pine or other 

 evergreen trees on the northerly side, where it cannot in 

 the spring-time delay the frost from leaving the road-bed 

 in a uniform manner. 



All of which is respectfully submitted, trusting that it 

 will meet with your approval. 



Fuancis H. Appleton, Chairman, 



STATEMENT OF GEORGE L. HAWKES. 



To the Committee on Forest Trees : — 



I desire to make the following statement regarding the 

 ornamental trees which I offer for premium. 



The rock maples, twenty in number, making a part of 

 the grove in front of the house, were set thirty-four years 

 ago, and are from six to twelve inches in diameter, and 

 from thirty-five to forty-five feet high. They and some 

 others are from seeds that I brought from Vermont and 

 planted forty-one years ago. 



Owing to a rather dry soil and their proximity to a 

 large elm tree, they have not grown so fast as those by 

 the highway. There are also in the grove a few white 

 pines, American elms and white ashes. The limbs of the 

 white ash are liable to decay; it puts on its foliage late 

 and loses it early, and in its early years is a slow grower 

 I do not consider it a very desirable ornamental tree. 

 The most of the thirty-eight rock maples along the high- 

 way and near the house were bought at a nursery and 

 planted twenty five years ago about twenty-five feet apart. 

 A few were set thirteen years ago, and are from seven to 

 sixteen inches in diameter, and will average forty feet in 

 height. There are two fine Norway maples near the 

 house, seventeen inches in diameter, and while resembling 



