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beauty a liimdred years. The cherries and apples please our 

 coarser tastes ; these our more refined sensibilities. 



The Washington Elm has borne fruit as well as the Stuyve- 

 sant Pear-tree. 



Let the farm be a place to live upon, and not a machine to 

 run for a limited period, out of which to wring a living. Let it 

 be such a place, with such attractions, that its sons when called 

 off to other pursuits, may look back upon the time spent in the 

 old homestead as the happiest part of their lives ; that the ship- 

 wrecked sailor may cling more hopefully to his plank, remem- 

 bering it ; that the merchant may keep a vision of it before his 

 mind, unobscured by those of wealth and gain, and in the 

 evening of his life may wander back to beautify with his fortune 

 his early home. 



