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These again have given place to comfortable dwellings, oc 

 cupied with happy and intelligent faces. Begirt with well- 

 tilled fields, prosperous farms have grown up all over our 

 favored land. The lack yet remaining is orchards and gar 

 dens. Add but these, and it will not be long until flowers 

 will blossom and stately trees grow up, shading smooth 



&quot;The Cabin of the Peaceful Pioneer. * 



lawns, and the next generation will bless the fathers who 

 left them the inheritance. Each home will possess its gar 

 den, and this country, for which the All- Giver has done so 

 much and man so little, will become the paradise and glory 

 of the world a country such as the ancients never knew. 

 It is a fact which can not be controverted that until hor 

 ticulture is successfully practiced, high farming can not 

 flourish, or rather high farming or improved agriculture 

 follows, and is the result of, progress in horticultural art. 

 The lessons learned through a study of the details of hor 

 ticulture are found tc apply as well to husbandry, and the 



