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fice, rashly imitate the pleasing example, without reflecting-, that 

 what we behold, has been the work of successive heirs, during the 

 lapse of ages, and will descend with increasing grandeur to count- 

 less generations. 



If stone be substituted for wood, utility and neatness, for ex- 

 tent and fantastic ornaments, and less be expended on the struc- 

 tures and more in improving the grounds, each farm would be 

 rendered intrinsically more valuable, and the whole country would 

 assume that flourishing, picturesque, and delightful aspect, which 

 so emphatically bespeaks the prosperity, intelligence, and happi- 

 ness of a people. 



The natural divisions of Horticulture are the Kitchen Garden, 

 Seminary, Nursery, Fruit Trees and Vines, Flowers and Green 

 Houses, the Botanical and Medical garden, and Landscape, or 

 Picturesque Gardening. 



Each of these departments require to be separately considered 

 and thoroughly understood, in all its ramifications, before it can 

 be ably managed, or all so happily arranged, as to combine utility 

 and comfort, with ornament and recreation. To accomplish this, 

 on a large scale, and in the best manner, artists and scientific 

 professors are employed in Europe, and are much required in 

 this country. Hitherto their services have been generally sup- 

 plied by the owners of the soil, who, as amateurs, have devised 

 and executed plans of improvement, which do honor to their 

 taste and skill, and encourage the hope, that these laudable ex- 

 amples of successful cultivation, will have a salutary influence 

 throughout the Union. 



The Kitchen Garden is an indispensable appendage to every 

 rural establishment, from the stately mansion of the wealthy, to 

 the log -hut, of the adventurous pioneer, on the borders of the 

 wilderness. In its rudest and most simple form, it is the nucleus, 

 and miniature sample of all others, having small compartments 

 of the products of each, which are gradually extended, until the 

 whole estate combines those infinitely various characteristics, and 

 assumes that imposing aspect, which constitutes what is graphi- 

 cally called the picturesque. 



