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Tlio ground plan exhibits a porch, a; staircase and passage, b; kitch- 

 en, c; closet under the stair, d; back kitclien, e; sitting room, with small 

 ©loset, /"; privy, .9; and wood-house, /i. The chamber lloor contains abed 

 poom, i; closet, A:; and another closet, /; a bed room, m; two closets, » 

 and o; and the staircase and landing, p. The defect in the accommoda- 

 tion hero, is the want of a proper pantry; but this might be easily ob* 

 tained by enlarging A, turning its present door into a window, and open- 

 ing a door to it from the kitchen. A substitute for A, may be provided 

 adjoining g. 



TREE CULTURE. 



BT PROFESSOR EDWARD NORTH, OF HAMILTON COLLEGE, CLINTON, K. T. 



Most men arc anxious to m:ike a comfortable provi-^ion both for tfapir 

 own old age and for the tender years of their children. This anxiety will 

 eoraetimes deepen and strengthen until it gains the force of a ruling pas- 

 sion. Its votaries will rise early, sit up late, and eat the bread of econo- 

 my, contrivance and extreme toil, to the end that they may be free from 

 the pinchings of want, and place themselves in independent circumstances. 

 One is ambitious to acquire in his deeds, and to own more acres than bis 

 eye can see over. Another has a ravenous appetite for dividends, and is 

 covetous of stocks, shares and mortgages. The pursuit of this kind of 

 property is so attractive and engrossing, that ils peiils are a])t to be over- 

 looked or disregarded. The danger that banks may fail, that bubble 

 shares may burst, and stock companies declare assessments instead of 

 dividends, is by many made little account of. 



The danger that their children may be ruined, body and soul, by the 

 wealth which they are toiling so sedulously to accumulate, seldom enters 

 their calculations. The danger that in the very process of making pro- 

 vision for an old age of happy independence, they are wholly unfitting 

 themselves for any other enjoyment than that baser sort which springs 

 from excUement of speculation and trade, is almost wd)olly overlooked. 



If there is any other way of securing a competence for one's declining 

 years, it is certainly worth knowing. It will be the aim of this article to 

 Bhow that the same end may be reached more successfully by the plant- 

 iiig and culture of Trees. The man who plants a tree of some desirablo 

 kind, in soil to which he has a clear title, makes an investment attended 



