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awake over this broad continent. We have received ac- 

 counts within the last month of the doings of ornamental 

 tree associations lately formed in five different states from 

 New Hampshire to Tennessee. The object of these associ- 

 ations is to do precisely what nobody in particular thinks il 

 his business to do; that is, to rouse the public mind to the 

 importance of embellishing the streets of towns and villages 

 and to induce everybody to plant trees in front of his own 

 premises. 



While we are writing this, we have received the printed 

 report of one of these associations, The Rockingham Farm- 

 ers' Club, of Exeter, New Hampshire. The whole report is 

 so much to the point, that we republish it entire in our 

 Domestic Notices of the month; but there is so much 

 earnest enthusiasm in the first paragraph of the report, and 

 it is so entirely apposite to our present remarks, that we 

 must also introduce it here: 



"Why are not the streets of all our villages shaded and 

 adorned with trees? Why are so many of our dwellings 

 still unprotected from the burning heat of summer, and the 

 pelting of the pitiless storms of winter? Is it because in 

 New England hearts, hurried and pressed as they are by 

 care and business, there is no just appreciation of the im- 

 portance of the subject? Or is it the failure in the attempt, 

 which almost every man has made once in his life, in this 

 way to ornament his home, has led many to the belief that 

 there is some mystery passing the comprehension of com- 

 mon men about this matter of transplanting trees? The 

 answer may be found, we apprehend, partly in each of the 

 reasons suggested. Ask your neighbor why he has not 

 more trees about his home, and he will tell you that they are 

 of no great use, and besides that it is very difficult to make 

 them grow; that he has tried it once or twice and they have 

 all died. Now these, the common reasons, are both ill- 

 founded. It is of use for every man to surround himself 

 with objects of interest, to cultivate a taste for the beautiful 

 in all things, and especially in the works of nature. It is of 

 use for every family to have a home, a pleasant, happy 



