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to our associates; for it is l^y the constant interchange of 

 facts, derived by experience, that we owe much of our progress 

 in horticulture. Let the cultivators of the soil give our art 

 more attention, and promote this interesting and benevolent 

 employment. To my mind, the production of delicious fruits 

 and fragrant flowers is only the promise of a healthier race, 

 of happier homes and a higher and nobler civilization! A 

 tree is the noblest monument of any generation. 



WITHOUT WORDS. 



As without words the roses scent the bower ; 

 As without words the dial points the hour ; 

 As without words the stream the water wheel 

 Turns o'er and o'er, and grinds the luscious meal ; 

 So without words the gallant grove, with shade, 

 Enrobes the knoll and skirts the sunny glade, 

 Providing thus, against excessive heat, 

 For men and beasts a cool, a safe retreat. 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



The value of everything that approaches the beautiful is 

 enhanced by an appropriate setting. Even the most beautiful 

 flower of nature is improved by its surroundings of delicately 

 tinted green foliage. The artist, when exhibiting his most 

 perfect artificial representation of nature, places it, if possible, 

 with a surrounding which will measurably attract the eye, 

 and yet cast upon the picture an enhanced breadth and height 

 of coloring, combined with the softness which nature, in her 

 hazy moods, gives to all her productions. 



The art of composition embraced in landscape gardening has 

 certain principles which go towartls forming a unity of the 

 whole, and from which no deviation can be made without 

 marring the result. Taste may be possessed in a greater or 

 less degree, but without reference to principles it will fail to 

 create a design of harmonious association. In the past too 

 little attention has been ^iven to the proper arrangements of 

 trees, shrubs and flowers in the decoration of our homes. But 

 every American citizen should have sufficient love for his 

 home, and he imbued with a sjnrit of in(l(>]Dendence, a })ri(le 



