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field-day, when all is so suggestive everywhere around. Study well 

 what is to be seen. Think well over it during the coming winter 

 months. Read works on landscape art and landscape work if you 

 will ; but let the lessons of American autumn scenery have a due 

 place among your thoughts, and when in the spring-time you will 

 have decided on what your garden shall be like for the next year, 

 we are sure our hints here given will not be lost. — Ed. Gardner's 

 Monthly. 



SET OUT TREES. 



Set out trees ! adorn the homestead. 



Make it pleasant all around, 

 Let the elms, and oaks and maples . 



With the evergi-eens abound : 

 Let the home be so attractive 



That the boy that is to-day, 

 When he shall arrive at manhood i 



And in foreign lands will stray. 

 May turn with longing heart and loving 



To his home these hills among. 

 Thinking how the trees are thriving 



Which he helped to plant when young'. 



Set out trees ! yes plant an orchard, 



Dear, good farmer do you know 

 Of the wealth there is in fruit trees. 



For the labor you bestow ? 

 How the apples turn to money. 



With the peaches, plums and pears, 

 And the luscious bright red cherries — 



All the fruit the orchard bears ? 

 Little children love the fruit trees : 



How they wait, with what delight. 

 For the coming of their blossoms. 



In their robes of pink and white. 

 Never flowers were half so pretty. 



Never such profusion shown. 

 As Dame Nature gives the fruit trees, 



With a glory all their own. 



Set out trees ! upon the common, 



Ashes, linden, poplars, birch : 

 Set them out around the schoolhouse. 



Plant them thick about the church, 

 Have the children's play-ground shaded, 



And the public walks as well, 



