I believe there is an act of the Connecticut Legislature now in force, which allows every farmer a certain sum of money for every tree he plants along the public roadside of his fields.

The object of this is to line all the highways of the State with ornamental trees, so that each shall be a well-shaded avenue.

What a gift to another generation that simple act is intended to make! What a world of wonder and delight will our little State be to European travellers and tourists of the next century, if this measure shall be carried out! If a few miles of such avenues as Burghley Park and Chatsworth present, command such admiration, what sentiments would a continuous avenue of trees of equal size from Hartford to New Haven inspire! While on this line of reflection, I will mention a case of monumental tree-planting in New England, not very widely known there.

A small town, in the heart of Massachusetts, was stirred to the liveliest emotion, with all the rest in her borders, by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

Different communities expressed their sense of the importance of this event in different ways, most of which were noisy and excited.