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TREK PLANTING — OKANBERRIES. 



the winter the snow has been t»odden down about 

 the trees to keep the mice from gnawing off the bark. 

 When planted, the trees were three years from tlie 

 graftiiij;'. Some of them fruited in 18.">2. Tlio Bnld- 

 torn, Greening and Roxbury Rusfel, were amuug 

 the first to bear. The JVurtheni Spy and ISjiitzen- 

 btirgh have not yet fruited. 



" The third premium of $5 is awarded to Alfred 

 L. Wei.i.s. whri?e orchard of 210 trees, planted in 

 1849, stands near the Clinton Cotton Mills. Li win- 

 ter the snow has been trodden down about the roots. 

 The varieties first in bearing were the Greening, 

 Baldwin and Roxbury Russet. The Spilxcnburgh 

 and JVorthern Spy have not yet fruited. 



"It is to be wondered ever that the land-owners of 

 Oneida are not more zealous in planting orchards. — 

 Nature has given them a soil and a climate most pro- 

 pitious for the raising of superior apples; inviting 

 markets are near at hand, or are easily reached. — 

 Ample inducements are held out in the direction of 

 profit, of pleasantness, and of sentiment, yet many 

 are still slow to enter into the full possession of their 

 peculiar advantages as owners of Oneida soil. Who 

 plants an apple tree in the soil of Oneida, makes a 

 permanent investment that may be e.xpected to in- 

 crease from year to year, until its original value is 

 hundred-folded. Who plants an apple tree makes a 

 prudent provision against life's rainy day.?, against 

 loss of health, misfortune in business, old age. Who 

 plants a tree, extracts something of bitterness from 

 the original curse — it was a part of Adam's punish- 

 ment to be e.xpelled from the society of cultivated 

 trees. To sm-round one's self with them is to take 

 some steps towards regaining the Paradise that was 

 lost to man by his first transgression. 



" The planted fruit tree will be a faithful minister 

 to its owner's profit, improvement, health and hapjii- 

 ness. It will stand sentinel over his dwelling through 

 winters of adversity, when summer friends have fled. 

 While its master is sleeping, the tree will be growing. 

 While he is traveling, the tree will stay at home and 

 keep on growing. It will be industrious for him 

 through all seasons, converting air, and earrth, and 

 water, into shadow for his footsteps, perfume for his 

 parlor, food for his table, fuel for his hearth, timber 

 for his use. It will serve hini contentedly through its 

 life, and nrinister to his wants when its life is ended. 

 A tree has moral and social uses. It is an orthodox, 

 wholesome preacher. It will discourse daily homilies 

 on faith, hope, patience and good will to men, with a 

 gentle eloquence that steals into the heart, making it 

 more roomy and open, and fiUing all its chambers 

 with sunshine. A tree sets an example of self-deny- 

 ing benevolence. It embroiders its foliage and ripens 

 its fruit by tedious processes; then gives them all 

 away, dropping its last leaf to keep warm the tender 

 plant that has taken root in its shade." 



Save your fruit seeds; and let it bo known that 

 you have them on hand. You can easily dispose of 

 them. 



A BAD man has no more common way of keeping 

 at peace with himself, than that of ascribing to 

 others similar or even greater faults than his own. 



TREE PLANTING. 



We notice among the munificent beques' 

 Elliot Ckesson, a legacy of $.5,000 to be empl 

 in planting trees in Philadelphia. There is ; 

 thing touching in this gift. It is fragrant of 

 taste and friendly feeling. It seems to express ; 

 tude for the comforting shade of some old tree i 

 which the weary philanthropist had meditatei 

 schemes of usefulness; and of considerate int 

 for the health and pleasure of future genera 

 who are to people the city of his birth. And ■ 

 monuments of marble and of bronze shall crui 

 the broad arms of the elm and the oak shall : 

 out against the sky as the befitting memento o 

 liberahty and the last of the tree-loving Phii 

 phian. 



Every one should plant trees. No object is 

 beautiful than a spreading elm, or a lively everg 

 none more productive than the apple or the lus^ 

 pear. Half the labor bestowed on a single en 

 potatoes would originate an orchard, the proi 

 of which in a few years would be equal in valu 

 nually to the potato crop, jet with but little 1 

 beyond the harvesting. A fortnight's toil in 

 spring or autumn in transplating choice fruit tre 

 the road side, or tastefully grouping them oi 

 lawn, will ultimately add more to the value o 

 place than twice tlie time employed in buildii 

 fencing. For their own comfort, for the sak 

 their descendents, for the taste and improvemei 

 the country, plant trees — let every body plant 



That bald, naked church, tasteless, treeless! 

 will have compassion on the worshippers, am 

 round it with trees? That district school house, 

 and unsightly; who will interest the boys in pla 

 and protecting slirubs and trees that it will mt 

 an attractive and beautiful spot? Those verdui 

 villages, with their houses thurst upon the stre- 

 who will distribute honey-suckles, and Vir 

 creepers and prarie roses, that they may be tu 

 into civihzed habitations? 



There is a softening, humanizing influence in h 

 culture and tree-planting, that we could wish 

 more general. There is too much danger ol 

 gross and sensual and selfish in our national ch; 

 ter; and while our reliance must be on religious 

 educational influences to correct this tendency 

 believe that good and only good would come of 

 love for trees and flowers, and the cultivatioi 

 both. It may be blessed in leading the heart u 

 the love of the Rose of Sharon and the garde; 

 God. — Jlmericaii Messenger. 



Cranbhrkies. — The Minnesota papers ace. 

 for the scarcity and high price of this fruit by 

 absence of the Indians who usually pick thei 

 Most of the tribe supplying St. Paul and that v 

 ity have been removed, hence a falling off in I 

 trade. One Indian, it is said, will pick more bei 

 than half a dozen white men, and he will go int 

 morass after them where it would be impossibl 

 get a pale face. The current rate in this mark 

 .'^12 per barrel, or $4 per bushel. — St. Louis I, 

 ligencer. 



