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Farmers in particular are prone to emagine that they can- 

 not afford to spend much time or money in outside deco- 

 rations of their homes, and in many instances it would 

 not be advisable ; but little forethought in the general 

 arrangement of buildings, planting of trees and seeding 

 down land for meadows and pastures, would give to thou- 

 sands of homes an air of elegance and refinement without 

 a penny of additional expense. And after all it is the 

 thinking that is necessary. The man who thinks learns 

 to desire ; and desiring learns to act. 



And he who sees daily the products of the Creator in 

 the form of blossoms to produce fruit, flower, grain or 

 grass, should remember that all of this brought daily to 

 the observation of his children is leading them to purity 

 and truth. 



As an illustration of what may be done at a small ex- 

 pense we offer the following The property was almost a 

 barren, but in five years paid $4,000 per year from the 

 crops : 



The boundary line on the street and each side is grown 

 with hedge of varieties some of evergreen, some of 

 flowering shrubs, willows, etc., etc. As you enter from 

 the street which is on the north of the place at the 

 left hand is the pond, about in form as per outline on 

 ground plan ; at the south end is a little rock work planted 

 with shrubs, vines, etc., and so more or less of rocks, 

 vines, shrubs, etc., dot the banks of the pond, while trees 

 of ultimate majestic growth cast their shadows over the 

 water. 



Continuing on south beyond the pond is, say eighty 



