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trees, in groups or sprinkled like stars, promise a 

 rich return; though no further fencing has at any- 

 time been given than that of having placed them, 

 as pollards, in the heart of a whin bush, wherever 

 such had occurred in the sheep walks, or in steeps 

 and glens incapable of other cultivation. 



If you plant a tree, it has been justly said you 

 will water it, intimating the pleasure you will take 

 in its growth; and, to succeed, the main rule is to 

 put your hand to the work. A volume of minute 

 details might be written on this pleasant theme, 

 but giving an air of importance by the minuteness 

 of detail, they would serve only to deter from the 

 enterprise which their author would zealously re- 

 commend. There is nosuch mysteryinthe matter. 

 Only make a beginning; improvement will grow 

 out of experiment; and you will find in the very 

 nature of the work a new interest communicated to 

 your life; and which, relieving the pressure of cares, 

 and lightening the burden of toil, will tend to no 

 worldiness of spirit; for ministers certainly do not 

 plant for their heirs, and though others may, yet 

 do they reap only the pleasure of their handiwork, 

 and must bequeath its gains to the unknown futu- 

 rity. Thus conferring as well as receiving good, 

 and incurring no evil, let our gardens and every 

 corner of our glebes be adorned; and, if we have 

 to lament, on the part of those having large pos- 

 sessions, that too little is done, let us, at least, set 

 an example, though it be but in the model style, 

 and have our home a paradise of fruit and flower, 



