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the children may destroy them in sport, the goats browse the 
young leaves and the fowls scratch out the plants. I am sure, 
however, that more will be done to prevent this by appealing 
to public opinion in favor of the plants, by placing them in 
short under the protection of the public themselves for whose 
benefit they are designed, than by trusting to the operation of 
the penal clause which is added to the Ordinance. Whenever 
the planting of a district begins, I would suggest that a notice 
printed in the various languages of the colony should be circu- 
lated among all the dwellings, explaining the beneficial pur- 
poses of those piecls-zarles la Heine, and asking every one to 
aid in preserving them. Similar notices I would have exhibited 
on bords along the high ways, calling on the passers-by to pro- 
tect the plants from mules and goats, and to aid in securing 
them for the general behoof. 
For some considerable time after the trees are first plant- 
ed, and of course for the planting itself, it will be necessary to 
employ special labourers. Watering will be required, there 
must be cleaning away of weeds, and keeping np of protective 
fences, and for these purposes a certain outlay will be absolutely 
necessary at first. Probably it may be roughly estimated that 
a guardian will be required for each mile of new plants This 
expense will cease after the trees have got to a certain height, 
but on the other hand the Road Department in future years 
may have any day a heavy handful of work thrown upon it, by a 
hurricane which might strew the road with debris of branches 
and trunks. For the sake of keeping the roads clear of leaves 
it will also be necessary to keep in view that the fewer deci- 
duous trees which are used the better. 
It will not be possible to commence at once with all the 
