OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



fastness, incapable of tillage, and of little 

 value for pasture, economy will suggest that it 

 be allowed to develop its own wanton wild 

 growth of forest: a just landscape taste will 

 suggest the same. If there be a broad stretch 

 of meadow or of marsh land, subject to occa- 

 sional overflow, or by the necessity of its posi- 

 tion not capable of thorough drainage, good 

 farming will demand that it be kept in grass : 

 good landscape gardening will do the same. 

 Again, such rolling hillsides as belong to 

 most farms of the East, and which by reason 

 of their declivity or impracticable nature are 

 not readily subject to any course of tillage, 

 will be kept in pasture, and will have their lit- 

 tle modicum of shade. The good farmer will 

 be desirous of establishing this shade around 

 the brooklet or the spring which waters his 

 herd, or as a sheltering belt to the northward 

 and westward of his lands : the landscapist can- 

 not surely object tothis. Thesameshelteralong 

 the wayside is agreeable to all aesthetic laws, 

 and does not surely militate against any of the 

 economies of farming. Indeed, I may remark 

 here, as I have already done in the progress 

 of these pages, that the value of a sheltering 

 belt of trees is not sufficiently appreciated as 

 yet by practical farmers; but those who 



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