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houses are all going to decay, where the fences are 

 all tumbling down, and where no pains are taken 

 with trees and flowers, and build a neat house, in 

 closing his grounds with a neat fence, and tastefully 

 decorating his yard with comely trees and beautiful 

 flowers, and his example will be a blessing to the 

 place. In three years there will be twenty neat 

 houses, with good fences, and yards blooming with 

 shrubbery and flowers, as the result of his judicious 

 outlay of means. The taste of the whole village 

 will be educated and improved by the influence he 

 will exert through the instrumentality of whatever 

 advantages he may possess over its inhabitants.&quot; 



But if moderate capitals may be advantageously 

 invested in the reclaiming of either swamp or cran 

 berry lands, it does not follow that large ones, so 

 used, will fail to produce equally satisfactory returns. 

 One instance may be cited where a large sum was 

 devoted to reclaiming a cranberry swamp in Mas 

 sachusetts. The leading particulars were given in 

 the Boston Cultivator, from which the following ac 

 count is taken. The grounds were visited by the 

 editor in November, 1863. Their owner is Dr. E. D. 

 Miller, whose residence is Dorchester, some twenty- 

 five miles from Boston. The swamp is described as 

 having been almost worthless. 



&quot; Something like ten years since, this swamp was covered 

 over with a growth of alders, dogwood, white maples, and 

 other swamp-shrubs, which covered the ground ; they were 

 cleared off, and a ditch cut through the swamp for the 

 brook, which before ran through a very crooked channel. 

 Ditches were then opened from the uplands on each side, 



