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Show Planting Nut Trees. One of many beautiful things that people in this purt of the country might do, but neglect for want of a little lit-tle foresight, Is the planting of nut-bearing nut-bearing trees along the highways. Especially Es-pecially now,' when we are. spending millions of dollars on the roadbed I wont to emphasize this Idea for the comfort and pleasure of future generations. gener-ations. I have not got over my boyish delight in gathering and eating nuts. The walnut is native throughout this region and Is a long-lived, stately state-ly tree, valuable for Its beautiful wood, as our government found when It came to buy the scattered few available for gunstocks. It is almost no trouble to grow, so every community Bhould have miles of walnuts on the roads where everybody could help himself Correspondence Corre-spondence Chicago Dally News. |