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evergreens, on the north of a farm-house, barn, garden, vineyard and 
orchards, extending around from the north east to the south west; 
but it failed, by defect of title to the land. Late in the December 
of life, I reluctantly abandon the hope of such an experiment, but 
after stating my reasons for the hope of success, I thus invite public 
attention to a due examination of the whole matter. Fruit trees and 
vines, I know by experience, may thus be skreened from the peltings 
of the merciless storm and cold, and enjoy a climate, (if I may so say, 
a local climate,) strangely foreign to the place in which itis produced, 
and not less strangely congenial to the life and habits of the culti- 
vated products. The live stock of the farm, and the wild game of 
the forests, choose their haunts with unerring wisdom, according to 
- the seasons, and the heat, and the cold ; of the knowledge of which 
the experienced huntsman, not disdaining to learn from untalking 
animals, avails himself, now searching the groves of evergreens, or 
the open woods, or the hill, or dale, as experience shall have taught 
him. But the hunter is half a savage! Man, civilized, learned, 
social and communicative, seems less inclined to take lessons from 
things, than from words, and thus goes on in blind habit; the pro- 
gress of nations in philosophy seems to be the more tardy, as their 
advance in literature is more rapid. 
Gentlemen of science and fortune, by entering spiritedly into im- 
provements themselves, may do much towards giving new and right- 
ful impulses to the public mind, in every thing connected with agri- 
culture, and the arts and sciences. Some indications of this sort are 
occasionally to be met with, in various parts of our widely extended 
country, affording auspicious hopes, yet by far too cireumscribed in 
the sphere of their influence. One reason of this is, that we are, as 
a people, not yet sufficiently aware of the power, in such matters, 
of a well conducted medium of communication, by the agericy of the 
press, of which we are too parsimonious in our patronage. In Eng- 
nd, the matter-of-fact discussions of the public press, in relation to 
steam navigation, canals and rail roads, bringing philosophy and sci- 
ence into the actual every-day business of life, have done more, in. 
a few years, towards enlightening the public mind, than many ages 
of folio and quarto book making. 
The county of Saratoga, New York, has been most profusely de- - 
nuded, as Dr. Johnson would say, of its wood. In passing along its 
roads last summer, within a few miles of its celebrated mineral 
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