The Rescue of an Old Place 



A muddle of weather had moderated sufficiently for 

 ""**' one to study the labels, we found that the 

 arrangement would have driven a gardener 

 wild ; future 'trees, a hundred feet high, hav- 

 ing been set side by side with burly little 

 shrubs, which at present look much more 

 important than their (to be) stately neigh- 

 bors. What with snow one day, and burn- 

 ing heat the next, combined with steady 

 dry weather, those shrubs have had a strug- 

 gle for existence, in which they have been 

 sturdily abetted by their natural protec- 

 tors. The hose one minute, and newspa- 

 pers and branches of trees the next, were 

 called upon to supply the deficiencies of 

 Nature, who was more than ever capricious 

 during that extraordinary season, and 

 since at the end of the summer they were 

 all well and firmly established, it shows 

 what care will do to defy the inclemen- 

 cies of the weather. After a year or two 

 they will have acquired the customs of the 

 place sufficiently to be moved where they 

 will make the best show, but before they 

 reach their final resting-place it is possible 

 that they may have several halts by the 

 way. With a ball of earth attached to the 

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