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earn and re-earn its passage to the ocean ; and while that ocean 

 continues to bear our surplus wealth to every distant clime, let no 

 planter of an orchard anticipate a want of purchasers for whatev- 

 ever fruits he may wish to spare from his trees. And even upon 

 a smaller scale, the farmer who consults economy or regards the 

 happiness of his family, will never regret the labor whicli can 

 so easily spread upon his table an abundance of the various 

 fruits of the successive seasons. 



There is a pleasure too in these pursuits, from which unlike 

 all other earthly pleasures its votaries never turn aside with sa- 

 tiety or disgust. Our most endearing associations, our most re- 

 fined perceptions of the beautiful, are connected with fruit and 

 other gardens. Horticulture, says Sir Wm. Temple, has been 

 the inclination of kings, and the choice of philosophers. The 

 Prince de Ligne after sixty years' experience, affirms that the 

 love of gardens is the only passion which augments with age. 



Something also may be urged in favor of the moral tendency 

 of the occupation, since as the latter writer finely observes. " it 

 seems impossible that a wicked man should possess a taste for it."* 



There are those who will say "all this reads pretty well ; yet 

 we ourselves are too old to reap the profits, to learn the pleasures, 

 or to experience the moral influences of which you speak." "Too 

 old ?" Why, with proper selection and careful cultivation, your 

 trees will render you valuable returns in even less than six 

 years from the time you put them out. 



Says J. J. Thomas, " A Bartlett pear-tree, six feet high, and 

 two years from transplanting, bore a peck of superb fruit. An 

 apple tree, removed to the orchard when not larger than a car- 



* II me semble qu'll est impossible q'un tnechant puisse 1' avoir. 



