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Take care of your Woodlands. — Autumn. 



Vol. IX. 



thousands of youns^ trees will germinate, but 

 so fond are cattle and slieep of their youn.r 

 tohage, that none to which these animals can 

 have access, will be permitted to o-row It 

 IS only after a thick growth of underwood, 

 sufficiently tall to be beyond the reach of 

 cattle has been secured, that any animal 

 should be admitted to the wood lots We 

 have seen a beautiful wood lot on which 

 thousands of thrifty young trees from three 

 to tive ieet m height WRre giowino-, reduced 

 in a year or two to the condition o"f an open 

 wood, and the young grovvth entirely de- 

 stroyed, by being carelessly thrown into a 

 catt e range; and there is scarcely any wood 

 lot, however destitute of young trees it may 

 now be, that will not be covered with thein 

 in a short time, if kept safe from the intru- 

 sions oi animals. 



The second tiling to be remembered is 

 never to cut a tree needlessly. There are 

 many who, when they want a piece of tim- 

 ber no matter how small it may be, instead 

 tirst seeing whether the want cannot be 

 supplied from some already fallen, or timber 

 ah-eady on hand, take their a.xe and impro- 

 vidently prostrate any tree they can make 

 subserve their present purpose, without re- 

 terence to future value or use. Never fell 

 a tree until you have ascertained its value 

 tor general purposes, for fuel, and not till 

 you have found it absolutely necessary 



Another thing not to be forgotten in the 

 treatment of woodlands is, always to select 

 those trees which have arrived at maturity, 

 are the slowest in their growth, or have be- 

 gun to decay. In a thrifty woodland, the 

 greatest amount of growth is usually with 

 the younger timber; for though there will be 

 sortie large trees that will increase as fast as 

 smaller ones, and consequently give a much 

 greater annual increase of wood from their 

 greater diameter, yet there will also be many 

 with no perceptible growth, or on which the 

 process of decay has actually commenced, 

 buch are the trees that should be selected 

 lor timber or fuel; and a double advantage 

 will result from this course, thritly timber 

 will be saved, and the younirer growth bene- 

 hted by more ample e.vposure to the sun and 

 air. 



It will be found of essential service in the 

 preservation of woodlands, and in increasino- 

 their value, to keep ail vacancies that may 

 occur, either naturally, or by the falling of 

 trees, hlled by transplanting. We know of 

 some farmers who keep a nursery of locusts 

 lor the expre.?s purpose of increasino- the 

 value of their wood lots by transplanting this 

 excellent timber tree wherever an opSnino- 

 otters. Others use those kinds of vounS 

 trees which are readiest at command^ or to 



which the soil seems most congenial. The 

 kind of tree transplanted is of comparatively 

 little conseriucnce, provided it is of sure and 

 quick growth, and is fit when o-rown, for 

 either timber or for fuel. By aUention to 

 the points we have here indicated, the value 

 ol our wood lots might not only be greatly 

 increased, but the "scarcity of wood with 

 whicn so many of our fiirraers are already 

 severely threatened, be averted. — cW- 

 valor. 



AUTUMN. 

 Bx Lydia. H. Sigourney. 

 " Has it come, the time to farte?" 



Am] with a murmiiriMg sigh 

 The Maple, in his motley robe, 



Was the first to make reply; 

 And the queenly Dahlias drooped 



Upon tlieir thrones of state, 

 For the frost king with his baleful kisg, 



Had well forestalled their fate. 

 Ilydraiigia, on her telegraph, 



A hurried sij^nal traced 

 Of treason dark, that fain would lay 



Briglit summer's region waste ; 

 Then quick the proud exotic peers 



In eonsternation fled, 

 And refuge in ilieir greenhouse sought, 



Before the day of dread. 



The Vino that o're my casement climbed, 



And clustered day by day, 

 I count its leaflets every morn ; 



See how Ihey fade away; 

 And as they, withering,- one by one. 



Forsake their parent tree,. 

 I call each sear and yellow leaf 



A buried friend to me. 



"Put on thy mourning," said my soul, 



" And with a tearful eye. 

 Walk softly mid the many graves 



Where thy companions lie; 

 The Violet, like a loving babe. 



When the vernal suns were new. 

 That met thee with a soft, blue eye, 



And lip all bathed in dew; 



The Lily, as a timid bride. 



While summer stins were fair. 

 That put her snowy ham) in thine 



To bless Ihee for thy care ; 

 The trim and proud Anemone;— 



The Daisy from the Vale;— 

 The purple Lilac tow'ring !,igh, 



To guard its sister pale : 



The ripened Kose— where are they now?" 



But from the rifled bower 

 There came a voice— "Take heed to note 



Thine own receding hour; 

 And let the ftrange and silver hair, 



That o'er thy temple strays, 

 Ee as a monitor to tell 



Tlie Autumn of thy days/' 



