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riage-whip, produced a bushel the fifth year." We have our- 

 self a Hubbardston Nonesuch apple-tree which, in the third 

 year from the nursery and the tenth from the seed, bore us 

 a half bushel of splendid fruit ; and the next year it produced 

 nearly a bushel. Peaches, plums, and cherries begin to show 

 fruit the second year from the nursery, and frequently the for- 

 mer two produce large crops in less than fire years. 



" Too old I " Rather say too lucky, that your father did not 

 make the same plea, when planting the trees of which you first 

 eat in childhood. 



" Too old ! " Admit it, must we also understand then that you 

 are a\so too mean to pay to posterity what you owe to those who 

 have gone before you ? Selfish man! Plant trees, plant trees. 

 No matter whether or not you may eat thereof yourself. The 

 fruit will afford another just as much pleasure as it would you. 

 Plant trees " forward in the name of God." plant trees, and it 

 hall cheer the useless hours of old age to remember, that in 

 your day and generation you did something, even so little, to 

 leave the world better, or at least no worse, than you found it. 



The subject-matter upon which this little work is designed to 

 treat, seems to us worthy the attention of all land-owners who 

 look to pecuniary profit, healthful recreation, and favorable mor- 

 al influences, or who feel disposed to leave to posterity some- 

 thing of as goodly a heritage as former generations may have be- 

 queathed to them. 



But the limits of a work, practical as this purports to be, do 

 not admit of further reflections of this kind. Let us proceed at 

 once to those enquiries which may serve to direct the hand of 

 future labor. 



" Aliens mes amis, il faut cuHiver nos fruitier^'' 



