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Show Trees Are Spared Along Roads in Massachusetts In Massachusetts the department of public works Is empowered by law to make roadside Improvements, the work including such planting, replacements replace-ments and care 83 may be necessary. When a road Is laid 6"ut as a state highway It is generally made sufficiently suffi-ciently wide to provide an area on each side of the traveled portion for roadside improvement No tree, shrub, or plant within such a highway can be cut removed or new ones added without a permit from the highway department The state has a nursery at Palmer, wtftre trees and shrubs are propagated and where the highway high-way landscape supervisor trains men in the care of trees and roadside beau-tification. |