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ness, and for this object young white oaks are worth twenty dollars a 

 cord. The amount of timber required among us for barrels, hogs- 

 heads, pails, and hoop-poles, is immense ; and this demand must not 

 only continue, but increase. 



Walking-sticks are always in demand. This is a great article in 

 Great Britain ; and it is a curious fact that within the last year 25,000 

 walking-sticks were cut and sold in the vicinity of Niagara Falls. 



The cultivation of the rock maple for sugar is a matter of great im- 

 portance. From trees planted by persons now living sugar is made in 

 great quantities, and several towns in this Commonwealth, from these 

 resources within themselves, are now able to supply their own sugar 

 and molasses. 



Mr. Emerson expressed an unwillingness, on account of the lateness 

 of the hour, to trespass upon the indulgence of his audience, though 

 the subject was large, and he had intended to say much more. 



Trees deserve our cultivation as matter of taste, for their ornament 

 and their shade, and for the rich beauty which they impart to the land- 

 scape. In travelling in a sultry dry day of summer, he has many 

 times found occasion for the most grateful acknowledgments under the 

 wide-spreading and refreshing shade of a tree planted by some kind 

 hand on the road -side. 



He has often been filled with delight in the survey of some of the 

 beautiful prospects and scenery presented in our own State. Many 

 travellers are familiar with a hill in Bolton, on the road to Lancaster, 

 which opens a prospect of surpassing beauty, in the wide area of many 

 miles circuit, spread out to the view, comprehending the charming val- 

 ley of Lancaster, through which the quiet Nashua marks out its wind- 

 ing channel, and presenting in the distant prospect some of the highest 

 hills of Massachusetts, and some lofty mountains of New Hampshire. 

 The magnificent elms, which proudly spread their wide branching tops 

 upon the meadows — the groves here and there, which the a.\e lias 

 spared — the frequent orchards, which indicate the wise care of the cul- 

 tivator — and the extensive forests in the distance, with their mingled 

 shades of green, from the most sombre to the brightest tint — conspire 

 to present a landscape which fixes the attention of the most careless, 

 and in its varied forms of light and shade, of forest and cultivation, of 

 valley and mountain, of crops and trees, with here and there a beauti- 

 ful village with its spires pointing to Heaven from among the trees, can 

 never fail to charm the eye and to touch the heart. The prospect from 



