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their steepness or otherwise inaccessible character. They will, 

 with proper care, produce very large crops and find a ready and 

 increasing market. The value of an acre of raspberries in full 

 bearing is at first sight almost incredible. I have known many 

 small pieces to bear fruit worth at the rate of from five to eight 

 hundred dollars per acre in the Boston^ market. No more 

 healthy or delicious fruit can be found for home consumption, 

 which should recommend it to every farmer who regards the 

 health and happiness of a family as paramount to all other ob- 

 jects. 



Those who have not land suitable for the culture of grapes, 

 strawberries, raspberries or blackberries, may have it suitable 

 for the cranberry, another very profitable crop, easily raised, and 

 one which will never fail to find a ready sale and an increasing 

 demand. 



Closely connected with the transplanting of trees for the 

 orchard, is their use for the general embellishment of the farm, 

 the neighborhood and the town. I would not see the farmer 

 stifle all sentiment and all taste for the beautiful. God never 

 intended that we should shut our eyes to the refining influences 

 of the beautiful, in nature or art ; else why such profusion 

 and luxuriance of beauty to adorn the world ? But besides the 

 gratification of our tastes and the cultivation of the highest and 

 best feelings of our nature, by a little care for rural embellish- 

 ment — although these alone should commend it to the earnest 

 consideration of every farmer — I propose to consider the suljject 

 in a strictly practical view. Suppose a hundred acres to be 

 owned to-day by Mr. A. and a hundred by Mr. B.,both similarly 

 located and equally good in point of soil and natural qualities, 

 without buildings, orchards, or any thing else to make one place 

 a cent more valuable than the other. Mr, A. and Mr. B. pro- 

 pose to build, each of them meaning to cultivate his hundred 

 acres as a farm. Mr. A. is particular in the location of his 

 buildings. He selects an elevated situation which commands a 

 wide and extended prospect, with a landscape stretching away 

 as far as the eye can see, all studded with beautiful lakes and 

 mountains and forests, and a broad expanse of heaven, of which 

 the eye can never tire nor the heart grow weary. Here he 

 builds a neat and substantial farm-house, with some regard to 

 architectural beauty. It stands back from the road with a wide 



