1859. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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THE SCOTCH PINE, (PINTJS SYLVESTBIS.) 



Most men, and all women, love trees, — 

 and they love those trees, or shrubs, or 

 plants best, that they have cultivated, or 

 assisted in cultivating-, wiih their own hands. 

 The person of taste who erects his house in 

 a charming natural grove, though it may be 

 made up of a variety of the most showy and 

 graceful of our forest trees, is not content 

 to stop there. He wants something before 

 him that he has been instrumental in call- 

 ing into being himself — something to which 

 he has given thought, and labor, and affdc- 

 tion, and which will still rtquire his care, 

 and will bud, and bloom, and exhale its fra- 

 grance or bear its fruit, especially for him. 



This good taste, we believe, is natural to 

 all persons, but in most, remains hidden for ?^V -^ %^^ 

 want of circumstances to develop it. He ■S^^^^/iOi 

 who delves fifteen hours a day on his farm, " - o— ^ 



grudgingly returning to the bosom of hia 

 family to partake of his accustomed meals, 

 will seldom indulge his mind in meditations 

 of the beautiful, either in nature or art. 







"A primrose on thi river's brim, 

 A yellow primrose is to him — 

 And nothing more." 



But as literature, commerce, manufactures, 



and the various arts, combine to help us 



to the necessities and luxuries of life, 



that dormant germ for the beautiful is 



unfolded, and man seeks to surround himself! they are from two to three inches long, and do not 



with the creations of his own fancy and labor. | drop from the tree until the fifth year. The cones 



He carves statues, paints pictures, and plants] open of themselves shortly after being gathered 



and gives form to trees and shrubs, and thus from the tree, and spread out in the sun. The 



lives delighted in a little world that he has long! seed should be sown on a finely- prepared sandy 



imagined, and at length brought into actual be- j soil, in March or April, and on land not entirely 



ing. 'open to the sun. 



When this taste has become active, he seeks] We are permitted to copy our engraving from 

 everywhere for objects to supply the form or j Warder's excellent work on "Hedges and Ev- 

 shade that seems lacking in the picture which he! ergreens," published by A. O. Moore (& Co., Ag- 

 has formed, and lays all countries under tribute] ricultural book publishers, N. Y. 



to gratify his wants. It is this taste that hasj 



introduced into our gardens and grounds so many 

 beautiful trees and shrubs from our native for- 

 ests, and 80 many of the exotics that grace and 

 bless other lands. It was this taste that intro- 



For the New England Farmer. 

 USE OF TAN BAKK. 

 Mr. Brown : — Some years since I received an 



duced the Scotch Pine into our collctions of or- invoice of French rose bushes, and on unpack- 



namental trees, a portrait of which embellishes "]S them, found the roots (luite dry ; I set these 



, „ l)lants out at once, at the entrance oi the garden, 



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This pine is one of the favorite European spe- i had the top tan taken from this, and the land 

 cies, and as it succeeds remarkably well in this dug over, this article being mixed in the soil in 

 country, will be likely to become a favorite' tree, diff'erent stages of decay ; upon this spot I placed 

 It has many varieties, and they are very dissim- ^^^ ^"P^es thus dry. These all, with but two 

 ., T p II-.- 1 f, , T^. exceptions, (say some thirty,) grew and flowered 



liar. In favorable situations, the Scotch Pine ^^e following summer. Ever since that time I 

 will grow eighty or one hundred feet high. The have continued the use of this article, placing it 

 leaves are glaucous, and in pairs ; in young trees around the gooseberry and currant bushes, and 



