trees. Azaleas are all the better kept iu the 

 )use till their growth is completed; except in the 

 ^e of very large plants, which may be turned out 

 ith the rest, where they will be sure to perfect their 

 )wer buds, but not add so materially to their size, 

 very other plant which is cultivated here of the 

 inter-flowerins; frreen-house kind?, will be placed out 

 ' doors by the l.ith or 20th of this month, (May,) 

 ung-cil, bJit I'ally exposed to the sun. — E. Sanders 



Country Gentleman. 



PRESERVATION OP TREES ON TOWN PLATS. 



19a 



PRESESVATION OF TREES ON TOWN PLATS. 



If we mistake not, ladies of taste and sentiment 

 e interested both in the preservation of trees on 

 wu plats and near their rural homes, and in the 

 ■oduction of cheerful and lovely groves; and there- 

 re we place in their department of our journal the 

 Uowing, copied from the Horiicullarist: 



In all parts of the Western States are springing 

 " towns that grow with great rapidity. Some 



these are destined to rival the Atlantic cities in 

 jpulation and importance; many others will become 

 cond class towns of note, while a still greater pro- 

 jrtion, though destined to an humbler rank, have 

 ill an equal interest with their more fortunate neigh- 

 )rs in attaining and preservhig a character for plea-s- 

 ituess and beauty. 



The sites of many of these towns are beautiful 

 'yond description. Nature has spent centuries in 

 ■owing and perfecting for their adornment the most 

 ■aceful and most magnificent forest trees. She has 

 versified the surface with hill, and plain, and dell ; 

 le has sent sparkling rivulets among the woods, and 

 stooned the trees with the ivy and the grape. The 

 d\, and the elm, and the maple, mingle their diverse 

 iauties together, while modestly beneath their shade 

 •e to be found the less ambitious but scarcely less 

 di.=;pensib!e trees that are needed to complete the 

 cture. 



Unfortunately the founders of new towns are apt 

 I be people who fail to appreciate sufficiently such 

 aauties. They are men whose thoughts are bent on 

 leculation, and who Cud their highest and almost 

 :ly enjoyment in the rapid acquisition of wealth, 

 hey call around them to build their houses, dig tlicir 

 mals, and construct their railroads, a population 

 rincipally of needy emigrants, transient persons, who 

 to and fro with the demand for labor, and who, 

 aviug no permanent interest in the place, are only 

 Dxious while they remain iu it to u.se as little as 

 ossilile of their doUar-a-day in current expenses. 

 Lmoug such a population a tree is of no value, ex- 

 ept as it may be turned into lumber or firewood. 

 toVibery of the woods is universally esteemed fair 

 lunder, and while the Yankee is stealing from the 

 jrest its best timber, the Irish and the German la- 

 orer is cutting his fuel from the remainder, with an 

 qual disregard of titles and of division lines. 



l>uring the present season I have occasionally spent 

 ome time in the outskirts of the town from which I 

 ■■rite, and w-hich is a sample of many such places. 

 3ut although it has suffered severely in the manner 

 Jluded to, it is not yet so unfortunate but that, if 



the evil be now checked, a considerable portion of 

 its natural adornments will remain. The front of the 

 town is already denuded of its trees, but elsewhere, 

 iu the direction of its growth, and iu close proximity 

 to its building, are still to be found forest trees in 

 great variety. Magnificent oalis — the growth of 

 centuries — have stationed themselves at little inter- 

 vals in all directions about the city. These oaks, if 

 properly appreciated, are invaluable; for they give 

 us, ready grown, such grand old shade trees, as gene- 

 rations must wait for from our own planting. 



A younger growth of oaks in great variety is also 

 here to be°met with. The white, the red, the black, 

 the white swamp, the scarlet-leaved, the chestnut, the 

 willow-leaved, and perhaps other varieties that do 

 not now occur to me, are here to be met with, and a 

 selection of foreign trees could scarcely be made that 

 would give greater beauty to a place than this family 

 of oaks. These trees are young and thrifty, and 

 have sprung up since the Indians were driven from 

 their hunting-grounds hereabouts, before which time 

 the young growth was kept down by an annual burn- 

 ing over of the openings. 



Here also are to be occasionally found the sugar 

 and the scarlet-flowering maple, and the graceful elm 

 is scarcely e\-er out of sight. The Buckeye is also 

 frequent; the honey locust throws out its long, thorny 

 branches on all sides; the aspen is to be seen in the 

 neighborhood of the stately ash, and now and then a 

 mulbery, with the black walnut, the butternut, the 

 plane, and the linden complete the picture. No! not 

 complete it, for the hickories are all about us— rug- 

 ged and sturdy, but full of unpolished beauty, and 

 deserving all the better care iu their preservation 

 where they have planted themselves, because of the 

 impossibility of transplanting them. The button- 

 wood, the tulip tree, and the willow, are also to be 

 found in particular localities, and the glossj--leaved 

 thorn, the dogwood, the cherry, the balm of Gilead, 

 and the sassafras in others. The red cedar, that 

 once grew along the banks of the Maumee, has un- 

 fortunately been already exterminated, and the lovers 

 ol rural beauty mourn its departure as that of a 

 cherished friend. But the list already given is suffi- 

 cient to show how profusely and variously the orna- 

 ments of nature still adorn that neighborhood. 



A proper degree of care on the part of the citi- 

 zens, and the protection by the city authorities of 

 the trees standing along new streets, would give to a 

 town thus naturally favored, a pleasant character and 

 appearance that few places ever attain — and that, too, 

 with little trouble and less expense. It is not neces- 

 ssry to plant, but only to select and save. Evey cit-. 

 izen may build his house under the shade of noblo 

 forest trees, and every street may be lined with them 

 in great variety, and of all sizes. 



Personal beauty is the gift of nature, but its pre- 

 servation depends much on the care of its possessor. 

 Beauty may also be cultivated and enhanced ; even 

 plainness may be improved, and the. defects that sick- 

 ness, accidents, and age impress on the human fea- 

 tures and form, may be greatly remedied by simple 

 means, and attention to a few important rules. 



A MiTTENED Cat was never a good mouser. 



