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then worth five dollars per tree for telegraph poles. "Add their value 

 for ornament and we find it a profitable investment. 



We are well aware that our government has a Department for 

 Forest}', and would not presume to supersede or detract from it any 

 honor, but as horticulturists lend our influence in aiding in the good 

 oause. 



Lastly, but not least, windbreaks induce bifds to come and live 

 with us both winter and summer, and will be our greatest friends by 

 their daily and timely destruction of the many pests to be contended 

 with by the growers of fruits, grains and vegetables. 



In connection with the ornamentation of homes, flowers come in 

 for a full share. In this department the ladies should lead off. To all 

 lovers cf flowers we would say, adorn your rooms with them, put them 

 on your tables, send boquets to your friends who have no flowers, or ex- 

 <}hange favors with those who have. Do not be afraid to devote a por- 

 tion of your time in their cultivation. 



Women, alike flowers, if confined to the room, become effeminate 

 and weakly. Out door exercise in the sun and air will give vigor, color 

 and health and add to your happiness and prolong life. 



To those who possess a lively and cultivated sense of the high 

 beauty of which landscape scenery presents to the eye, but who can 

 also see creation's God in every feature of the prospect. The painter 

 •can imitate, the poet describe and the tourist talk with ecstacy of 

 the sublime and beautiful objects which constitute the scene before 

 him; but he can only be said to enjoy them aright whose talents, 

 tastes and affections are consecrated to the glory of Him by whom "all 

 things were made, and without whom was not anything made that was 

 made." When the pencil that traces the rich and animated landscape 

 of mountains, lakes and trees, is guided by a grateful heart as well as 

 by a skillful hand, then the picture becomes no less an acceptable offer- 

 ing to God, than a source of well directed pleasure to the mind of man. 



In every wonder he sees the hand that made it^n rivers, fields 

 and forests, the Prqvidence that ministers to the wants of man — in 

 «very surrounding object he sees an emblem of his own spiritual condi- 

 tion, himself a stranger and a pilgrim, journeying on through a country 

 of wonder.^ and beauties, alternately investigating, admiring and prais- 

 ing the works of his Maker, and anticipating a holy and happy eternity 

 to be spent in the Paradise of God, where the prospects are ever new, 

 and the landscapes never fade from the sight." 



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