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new beauties appear, and find peculiar pleasure 

 in the parentage of trees, whether forest, fruit, or 

 ornamental, a pleasure that never cloys, but grows 

 with their growth. Such tree-planting is a grand 

 discipline in foresight. Mental myopia means weak- 

 ness and folly, while the habit of forecasting con- 

 sequences is the condition of wisdom. Many 

 youth will sow only where they can quickly reap. 

 With them a meagre crop soon in hand outweighs 

 a golden harvest long in maturing. The tree- 

 planter can appreciate the apothegm, " To patiently 

 work and wait, year after year, for the attainment 

 of some far-off end, shows a touch of the sublime, 

 and implies moral no less than mental heroism. " 



