380 State Horticultural Society. 



Wherever he may be, the average American forester during the next 

 thirty years will have a very different task from that of his European 

 counterpart. In Europe everything is carefully worked out and reduced 

 to system. The forests are cropped as regularly and as methodically as a 

 farm. One forest crop is followed by another in regular rotation, and 

 every phase of the question is definitely known and recorded in a forest- 

 er's manual. In America the field still lies open for original work. — J. 

 Russell Smith, in the Forum. 



ROADSIDE TREES. 



A highway witiiout trees is not only bare and ugly, but under tlie 

 blistering sun of mid-summer a menace 'often to the life of man and beast. 

 The past two summers have been so cool and moist that Mr. Squiers has 

 perhaps forgotten how dangerous an unrelieved exposure to the sunlight 

 sometimes is: how grateful the shade of a broad-spreading tree, falling 

 like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Undoubtedly it is pos- 

 sible to have too many trees along a road. We know one near Albany 

 that is completely over-arched, and it is not a good road to drive on early 

 in spring or for some days after a rain. But everything can be overdone. 

 The man who never plants a tree and the man who never cuts one down 

 are both extremists whose example is profitably avoided. — Country 

 Gentleman. 



Give me the splendid silent sun with all his henms full dazzling, 



Give me .iuicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard, 



Give me a field where the unmowed grass grows. 



Give me an arbor, give me the trellised grape. 



Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. 



Give me away aside from the noise of the world a rural domestic life. 



— Walt. Whitman. 



THE FARM BEAUTIFUL. 



How to cultivate the beautiful and make money at it is the old prob- 

 lem in new form. Can our land cultivation include an equal care of the 

 beautiful and the useful? We have in mind a country place, which at 

 first view is artistically designed for the cultivation of all trees and 

 shrubs of a purely ornamental sort. Yet, the owner replies, "The fact 



