OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



thing rurally attractive in this unpretending 

 porch, whose columns have come from the 

 forest, and whose overarching arms are the 

 arms that overarch God's temples of the 

 wood? Not lacking, surely, some elements 

 of the beautiful in itself; and at the door of a 

 village clergyman, with the ivy showing its 

 glossy leaflets in wealthy labyrinth, and the 

 convolvulus twining up at the base upon 

 whatever vine-hold may offer, and handing 

 out its purple chalices to catch the dews of 

 the morning — is there nothing to be emulated 

 in this ? Let those who love Nature's simplest 

 graces, answer. 



ON NOT DOING ALL AT ONCE 



There are a great many ardently progressive 

 people who will be shocked by the caption 

 under which I write. The current American 

 theory is, that if a thing needs to be done, it 

 should be done at once,— with railroad speed, 

 no matter whether it regards politics, morals, 

 religion, or horticulture. And I wantonly take 

 the risk of being condemned for an arrant 

 conservative, when I express my belief that 



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