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STATE OF MICHIGAN. 



our lake counties, like Oakland, Jackson, Hillsdale, Kent and many 

 others, and in the counties of much uneven and rolling land, like Wash- 

 tenaw, there are exceptional opportunities for making the most attractive 

 roadsides in the world. This is especially true where the roads follow the 

 shores of lakes or banks of streams, or curve about the border of a 

 swamp. Near my own home at Greenville we have some of the finest 

 natural roadsides I have seen anywhere. 



PINE SEED FLIES, A STAND OF YOUNG NORWAY PINE 4 TO 10 FEET HIGH, SPRUNG 

 UP IN AN ABANDONED FIELD, QUITE A DISTANCE FROM ANY SEED BEARING 

 TREES. 



I am glad that attention is being called to these things more and more 

 and that the number of people interested is increasing year by year. 



I remember nothing I have done to which I look back with more pleas- 

 ure than to the walnut trees that I have grown and given to friends and 

 neighbors, and which now are growing by "the roadsides of my home 

 township. Although their size and the crops of nuts they bear remind 

 me that I am growing old, it is always with a keen sense of pleasure that 

 I watch their development as the years go by. 



Butler, Pennsylvania. 



