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His children have nothing to minister to their higher natures or aesthetic 

 tastes. His sons are restless and dissatisfied, and long for the time when 

 they can leave the paternal roof and plunge into the seething vortex of 

 the city. His daughters are frivolous and unhappy, and desire to turn 

 their backs upon the coarse and uncongenial home. 



If he is a wise man, he takes in the situation at a glance, and makes 

 haste to improve it. He removes all unsightly and disagreeable objects 

 to a proper distance from the house; the pig-pen is banished to a distant 

 corner; the wood-pile is removed to its proper place; and the yard and 

 lawn, which have been used from time immemorial as a pasture and stock 

 lot, are carefully planted with trees and shrubs. And this place, which 

 was so lately the picture of desolation, will soon become a bower of 

 beauty — a home which the children will love with all the ardor of youth- 

 ful affection — around which will cluster a thousand pleasant memories — 

 and to which they will look back with pleasure in all their weary wan- 

 derings through life. 



"But," says farmer A, or neighbor B, "I don't know what to 

 plant to produce the best effect." Well, we will tell you. First, plant 

 evergreens; and don't be afraid of planting too many. The following 

 are the most desirable — in the order named : Norway spruce ; Scotch, 

 white and Austrian pine; black spruce, arbor vitje, fir, hemlock and red 

 cedar. The savin and Irish and trailing juniper are very interesting 

 small trees, or shrubs, and should have a place in every collection. 



Deciduous trees must also have a place ; and here considerable 

 judgment is required — as trees of a large growth, like the elm and linden, 

 should not be placed too near the house, or where they will overshadow 

 other interests. Among the most desirable trees of this class are the 

 chestnut, walnut, white and mountain ash, maple, larch, tulip tree, 

 cypress (deciduous), magnolia acuminata, linden and elm. There are 

 many others worthy of attention ; but these will do for a beginning. A 

 place should also be found for a variety of shrubs, vines, roses and other 

 flowers — when the picture will be complete. 



Those who have given the subject no attention have little idea how 

 cheaply such a plan of ornamental planting can be accomplished, nor 

 how much it will add to the beauty of their homes, the comfort of their 

 families, and the intrinsic value of their property. 



This society has not heretofore felt itself justified in doing much in 

 the way of giving instruction or encouragement in this pleasing branch 

 of horticulture ; but the time has now come when it should take hold of 

 the work. And, if true to itself, we may, in a few 3-ears, have the pleas- 

 ure of seeing many of our rural homes, that are now as cheerless as the 

 desert of Sahara, made beautiful by the touch of this magic art. 



At this meeting Secretary Johnson read an essay on Landscape 

 Gardening, and G. P. Walker read a paper on Orchard Planting, which 

 we are compelled to omit, although worthy of a place in this connection 

 if we had room for them. 



