Event tree planted by the side of a thoroughfare in such a position that it will attain its maximum of growth and spread, is a distinct benefit to the community. Ina perfectly obvious way it is an advantage to have in hot weather well shaded resting spots for tired cattle end exhausted human labourers, and it equally obvious that, on the score of more beauty, the more thoroughly a at root is transformed into a well-wooded avenue the more gratefully and plea it affects the eye. Great communities are yearly displaying an increasing appreciation of these facts. In the state of New York, any inbabitant liable to highway tax, who, under certain conditions-as to spacing, trans plants to the side of the public highway any forest shade trees or fruit trees of suitable size, is allowed in abatement of hia highway tax, one dollar for every four trees set out. In London, tree planting has recently been pushed on energetically, and in Birmingham attempts worthy of more success than has actually attended them have been made to turn the main streets into boule.
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