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associations in which very moderate salaries would yield 

 princely accommodations. The whole region would be one 

 beautiful garden, but productive as well as beautiful; filled with 

 fruit trees, vines, and fruit-bearing shrubs. There is no need 

 that ground should be useless to be ornamental. What can be 

 lovelier than a country filled with pear, apple, cherry, and plum 

 trees in blossom or fruit, filling the whole atmosphere with 

 their delicious fragrance. Belts of evergreens here and there 

 should screen them from the cold blasts of the north. Nut- 

 bearing trees are among the finest for beauty and shelter. 

 Light open palings should take the place of our high ugly 

 walls, which destroy all beauty of prospect; but with a pro- 

 per social organisation, few fences of any kind would be 

 required. 



The soil, enriched by the matter now wasted as noxious 

 gases in the atmosphere or filth poured into the rivers and sea, 

 would become more and more fertile, and, with the regulation 

 of heat and electricity, double and quadruple its productiveness. 

 Domestic cares and labours would be so diminished by com- 

 bined labour, or what an American lady has called "co-operative 

 housekeeping," that great numbers of ladies and children would 

 become skilful gardeners, competing with each other in pro- 

 ducing the finest fruits and flowers, not to send to market, but 

 to ornament every table and furnish an important portion of 

 every repast. 



Croquet if you please; but I can fancy pretty hoes and rakes, 

 watering engines, and other gardening tools, employed by 

 groups of horticulturists, vine-dressers, and florists, quite as 

 interesting. Bands might play, and fountains leap and splash ; 

 and life be filled at once with- all uses and all delights. We 

 have yet to learn the interest, dignity, and happiness of really 

 useful labour. 



In the variety of tastes and capacities in every large society, 

 there would be found persons who, -from natural inclination, the 



