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OimAi\IENTAL TREES. 



For the Committee on Ornamental 2'rees. 



Gentlemen — By the publications of your Society I have 

 learned that the subject of encouraging the planting of Forest 

 Trees has engaged the attention of its members from its forma- 

 tion ; that in the year 1852, the very liberal premiums of thirty 

 and twenty dollars were offered to any city or town in the county, 

 for the largest number and best growth of ornamental trees, which 

 shall be planted in any public sqiiare, or on the road-side. Sub- 

 sequently a premium of ten dollars was offered to the individual 

 "who should plant in like "manner the largest number. No appli- 

 cation, I understand, has hitherto been made for either premium. 

 I respectfully request the Trustees to examine those I have 

 planted on the road-side for shade and ornament, part of them 

 bordering my own lands, and part in front of the lands of others, 

 in the immediate vicinity ; they are mostly from two to three rods 

 apart, and are all in a thrifty condition, in number and variety as 

 follows : 



134 elm, 3 tulip, 



63 ash, 2 mulberry, 



50 majile, 1 poplar, 



5 three-thorned acacia, 1 oak, 



3 horse chestnut, 1 beech. — Total 203. 



When it is considered that a beautiful tree, overarching the 

 road-side or bordering some broad avenue where it can grow and 

 develope itself on all sides, is one of the finest pictures of symme- 

 try and proportion that the eye can any where meet with, I am 

 astonished at the indifference and neglect prevailing in nearly 

 every part of the country. 



Should this communication have even a remote tendency to 

 awaken in the County an interest in the subject, my object in 

 making it will be attained. 



CHEEVER NEWHALL. 



Dorchester, November 10, 1855. 



