134 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Diviue Mind, aud the original must be in the Paradisiacal garden, 

 and what we see here are but imperfect clay models of the original. 

 Thus if we put aside old blinding dogmas we could look through 

 these things right into the spiritual world and see in a degree 

 the things to which the}' correspond. 



By correspondence our growth is represented in the first Psalm 

 as the growth of a tree ; a godly man as a thrifty tree growing 

 by a river, and depicted as a well-developed being, able to appre- 

 ciate the good, the true, and the beautiful ; but the ungodlv 

 are not so, but are like the chaff, undeveloped. Were the j^ouug 

 taught the art of horticulture, the love of nature thereby engen- 

 dered would be elevating, helpful in cultivating the faculty of 

 appreciation, and would sometime enable them to see and love the 

 good, thus preparing them for the better world. 



Rev. Calvin Terry was much interested in the essay ; it pointed 

 in the right direction. In former times it was common talk that 

 people did not need much book-learning to become farmers. Now it 

 Tvould sometimes seem that a farmer to be successful, needed 

 all the wisdom and all the learning in the world. But of all the 

 branches taught there are none that give breadth and solidity to 

 character like these horticultural studies. He said the Life of 

 George Washington was one of the first books he read, that he 

 remembered. Everybody has read or heard tlie story of George 

 and his little hatchet, but he would call attention to another. 

 George once found in the garden, his own name, growing up out 

 of the soil, and ran to his father for an explanation of the wonder. 

 This was given in a religious lesson, illustrating the beauty and 

 wisdom of Divine planning, as well as its necessity, and the 

 omnipotent power of God as displayed in all things. Such 

 experiences in his childhood did more to make the immortal 

 Washington, than all the political influence that was exerted in his 

 favor. Everything that has life in it thinks after its fashion, for 

 God is in it, and he is all thought. "All things in Nature are 

 beautiful types to the soul that reads them." 



"Cities groAv west," but the speaker was happy to say that 

 he had always grown toward the east. In his garden there is 

 nothing to intercept the rays of the rising sun, and he liked 

 to be there and see their first glimmerings. He wished that all 

 children could be taught to appreciate the first hour of morning 

 with all its fresh beauty, music, and brightness. He thought 



