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beauties owns property in every landscape that his 

 eye rests upon oftentimes more than he who holds 

 the title-deeds. 



Give to the true lover of Nature a hard, rugged soil, 

 and he will know how to make even that attractive. 

 He studies every object. He knows upon what the 

 pleasing effect depends. It may be a single tree, or 

 a single copse, which the thoughtless world never 

 think of sparing. His home may be poor, but it 

 will have the best location, and it will have expres- 

 sion not a mere roofed box for shedding rain, 

 without proportion, without the first element of 

 beauty, so devoid of taste that every ornament 

 makes it more unpleasing. To most of us, our 

 homes are our wealth. "We seek for money that we 

 may throw around us objects of beauty and make 

 our homes places of enjoyment worthy of a civil- 

 ized and cultivated people. Nothing is plainer than 

 that some people, almost without money, succeed in 

 this, while others, whose checks are readily hon- 

 ored by their bankers, entirely fail. They have the 

 money, but are entirely unable to purchase the 

 same means of enjoyment that the poor man has 



