ARTIFICIAL PLANTING OF TREES. 367 



leaves, often render it an object of aversion, which objections do 

 not lie against its relative, the Kentucky coffee tree, {^Gijmno- 

 cladus Canadensis,^ equally beautiful in appearance and equally 

 hardy. 



Some one has made a quaint remark, that among other duties 

 of life, every man should build a house and plant a tree. There 

 is not always the need of the house-building, nor always the 

 means ; but means and ability and future need all cry out for 

 the tree-planting ; and let every one plant a tree and see that it 

 grows, and future generations will silently bless the public spirit 

 that dictated such a course. Especially should the farmers look 

 to this, and begin at once on such good deeds of duty and of a 

 true and refined charity, which shall in due time make our State 

 a garden, and render it full of pleasant associations to those 

 whose fortunes or business lead them away from their early 

 homes, to which the heart yearns always to return, to spend 

 declining years and die beneath their eld ancestral trees. 



