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But I want to see the time when every man who has ah acre of 

 land will have a good garden attached to his house. There is 

 nothing more economical than a good garden. You may feed the 

 family all through the summer months by going to the pork barrel 

 and to the garden, and live well, too, instead of paying out two or 

 three dollars at a time for butchers' meat. There is nothing 

 more wholesome than garden vegetables, and certainly nothing 

 more economical. 



You want fruits also in the garden. A great deal of meat in hot 

 weather is not so healthful as a vegetable diet. You want apples, 

 pears, and the small fruits — strawberries, raspberries, currants 

 and grapes ; especially the currant, for I think that stands at the 

 head of all our small fruits. It continues much longer than the 

 strawberry or raspberry does, and that is an object. You want 

 all these things in your gardens, and interspersed here and there 

 a rose bush or some other beautiful flower. Then you will have a 

 home that will be attractive to your children, and'they will not be 

 all the time planning to go away to Boston, or Lowell, or Ports- 

 mouth, or Portland, or some where else. They will have asso- 

 ciates growing up with the same tastes as themselves, and they 

 will have homes that they will regard and that never will be for- 

 gotten as long as they live, let them go where they will. 



Dr Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston. I was very glad to hear the 

 remai-ks which have been dropped by Gov. Brown, more especially 

 in regard to ornamental trees, and to the importance of making 

 their cultivation a matter of public interest. I speak the more 

 feelingly on this subject because, some seven or eight years since, 

 I commenced a home on the hill by the side of our grammar school 

 house. The sdil was unfavorable to the growth of forest trees, 

 but by dint of perseverance and replanting, I succeeded in getting 

 a beautiful row of elms, of about three years' growth, on three 

 sides of my lot. Gov. Brown says he wants the towns to vote to 

 plant trees ; and so do I ; but the authorities of this goodly city 

 took it into their heads to take down the grades of the streets, 

 and uprooted all those trees in which I took so much pride, be- 

 lieving that they would be an ornament to the town ; and to-day 

 my liouse stands as barren as if a tree never grew in the State of 

 Maine. What is to be done in such a case, when the public 

 authorities of a city like Lewiston can themselves lay vandal 

 hands on the trees planted by those who take pleasure in beauti- 

 fying the town ? 



