WORCESTER COUNTY 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



6th January, A. D. 1898. 



ESSAY 



BY 



O. B. HAD WEN, President. 



Subject : — Rural Adornment with Trees and Plants. 



Here and there in the suburbs of cities and country towns are 

 seen many attempts at rural andornment and ornamentation 

 with trees and plants, delighting with their unexpectedness, and 

 pleasing by their simplicity, and harmonizing with nature in 

 every degree of landscape. 



Also a neglect of these attractions is conspicuous along the 

 highways and byways which are by far too manifest, by the 

 utter want or neglect to use the means which God and nature 

 and sunshine have so abundantly placed within our scope. And 

 yet the trees, the flowers, the lawn, the water, and a thousand 

 kindred charms which only await development when nature is 

 assisted by man, are to ripen the instincts and cultivate the finer 

 art of rural life, and encourage the more delicate graces of home 

 and rural surroundings. 



What prevents giving our farms, our homes, our public and 

 private grounds, an air of simple or elaborate adornment, in 

 accordance with the means and time at our disposal ? 



We may make our grounds, however situated, large or small 

 in area, so fitted to its exposure, its altitude, its simplicity, so 

 governed by judicious planting and neatness, so rich in leaf and 

 flower, an enduring and refining feature in the landscape that 



