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some of the choicer kinds of trees etc., which I shall begin 

 to do next spring. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Pbancis H. Appleton. 

 To Mr. John Robinson, 

 Salem. 



COMMITTEE ON FOREST TREES. 



In response to a notice, duly received from the Secretary 

 of the Society, for this Committee to view a plantation of 

 white pine trees over three years old, entered for the So- 

 ciety's prize of $20 by Mrs. Anna T. Phillips, of Morain 

 Farm, North Beverly, the Chairman requested the members 

 to meet there on Tuesday morning, Sept. 30th. 



The members of the Society who were present are unani- 

 mously in favor of awarding the prize of #20 to Mrs. Phillips, 

 for her successful and instructive efforts and results in 

 improving and beautifying an otherwise almost useless 

 piece of land, by planting it with that native evergreen tree, 

 the white pine (pinus strobus), whose value for ornamental 

 planting is already high, and whose value for timber is con- 

 stantly being enhanced on account of its increasing scarcity 

 in the nation. 



It is customary for the Committee to give some account 

 of their visits, and, in conformity to that custom, the follow- 

 ing is submitted in addition to the statements concerning 

 the plantation more immediately under consideration. 



Four members of the Society were present, and were 

 driven from the station through the pleasant streets of that 

 northerly section of Beverly, which is remarkable for, among 

 other things, its world-renowned Wenham Lake — on the 

 northerly shore of which is Mrs. Phillips' farm. 



It was from this lake, in the more prosperous days of the 

 ice-exporting business that ice was shipped to many parts of 

 the world and sold as Wenham ice. This lake is also re- 



