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and beautiful lawn, and, perhaps, a comely avenue lined with 

 trees. Every thing about the house shows the marks of taste, 

 thrift and comfort, and every thing about the garden gives evi- 

 dence of the care and attention of Mrs. A. and her daughters. 

 The flowers and shrubs which they love to plant and cherish, 

 and among which they drink in the sweet pure air, and grow 

 healthy, and happy, and strong through the spring and summer, 

 make their home the most beautiful and lovely spot on earth to 

 them, and the farmer and the farmer's sons would not willingly 

 be absent from it for a single day. Every variety of fruit hangs 

 in rich profusion, and grows mellow and golden as the autumn 

 advances, filling the cellars with the means of making the win- 

 ter more cheerful, and adding largely to the fund from which 

 the comforts and luxuries of the family are to be obtained. 



Farmer B. had the same amount of money that farmer A. 

 had. His land was equally well located. His house cost as 

 much, but it was placed under the hill, because he thought the 

 labor of carrying on his farm would be a little less. His barn 

 cost as much with the exception of the cellar, which he could 

 not afford to finish. He had no time to set out fruit trees, and 

 besides that, there was no room for them around his house, be- 

 cause it was set directly on the road to save land. No piazza 

 keeps the hot sun from the door or the windows, no vines creep 

 luxuriantly up the sides of the house or hang in rich festoons 

 to delioht the eve of* the traveller or the heart of farmer B. 

 He looks only to what is substantial, and raises corn, potatoes 

 and grain, a few ordinary apples, some pork, mutton and beef, 

 and is, withal, a pretty fair specimen of a plain New England 

 farmer, honest and upright, but a little behind the times. He 

 jogs on very well to do in the world without working quite so 

 hard as Mr. A., to be sure, but witliout the same exultant pride 

 and satisfaction in the surroundings of his dwelling, till the 

 time comes, when for some reason or other, both farms are 

 offered for sale. Which do you think will command the high- 

 est price and find a purchaser most readily ? He who does 

 something, by the cultivation of ornamental trees for the em- 

 bellishment of his farm and the adjoining highway, is a public 

 benefactor. 



In this connection I would allude to the existence of a gen- 

 eral law for the incorporation of any ten or more persons as an 



