UNIVEKe 



THE HOME ACRE. 



CHAPTER I. 



TREE-PLANTING. 



LAND hunger is so general that it may be 

 regarded as a natural craving. Artificial 

 modes of life, it is true, can destroy it, but it is 

 apt to reassert itself in later generations. To tens 

 of thousands of bread-winners in cities a country 

 home is the dream of the future, the crown and 

 reward of their life-toil. Increasing numbers are 

 taking what would seem to be the wiser course, 

 and are combining rural pleasures and advantages 

 with their business. As the questions of rapid 

 transit are solved, the welfare of children will turn 

 the scale more and more often against the con- 

 ventional city house or flat. A home can be 

 created in rented dwellings and apartments; but 

 a home for which we have the deed, a cottage 

 surrounded by trees, flowers, lawn, and garden, 

 is the refuge which best satisfies the heart. By 

 means of such a suburban nook we can keep up 



