The Rescue of an Old Place 



time and training, and the neighborhood 

 of Boston have their influence even on a 

 Pine, and that clerical tree is now a very 

 Bishop in erectness and dignity, having 

 been lopped and pruned and tied to stakes, 

 till it puts the most symmetrical of the 

 other Pines to shame by the vigor of its 

 development, proving that if anything can 

 " beat Nature " it is Education. 



The consolation of having a limited 

 number of trees is that each one acquires 

 an individuality, and their owner gets to 

 know them as a shepherd does his flock. 

 I wish every one could learn the way in 

 which these little growing things take hold 

 of one's interest, and people life in the 

 country, and that this pursuit could be 

 taught to children as a branch of their 

 education. 



The plant- It is the custom in some of our high- 

 *by school** schools for the graduating class to plant a 



and colleges. ^ j n ^ neighborhood of the SChool- 



house and for a long period it has been 

 the time-honored custom of universities 

 to set out a vine in commencement week, 

 to commemorate the class that is leaving 

 college. 



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