A SUGGESTION FOR THE COUNTIES.
I should like to make a practical suggestion for the especial consideration of Middlesex, whose roads so far are rather barer than their neighbours', or for Surrey ? Will not one of the metropolitan counties select a reach of one main road to illustrate characteristic trees of the Empire, as the urban authorities of Perth, in Western Australia, have repre- sented English :timber, especially oak, along their loveliest drive ? We cannot, of course, grow Jarrah or the giant Karri or the primitive Black Boy in Middlesex ; but we can easily grow Canadian maple, certain species of gum tree, the Pepper tree, the Wattle (whether African or Australian), the weeping willow of Elba. We might go beyond the Empire and illustrate the trees of the world with such trees as the American oak or the Japanese larch or the deciduous cypress (which is lovely and very hardy). We may do more than qualify the plainness of these new roads : we may make them places of pilgrimage.
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