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her labors. A willow answers very well to shade the pigsty from 

 the summer sun, or in drooping over the barnyard ; but custom, 

 in some sections, has preferred the butternut tree or oilnut tree, 

 (Juglans cinerea,^ which feeds luxuriantly upon the supera- 

 bundant manure, and appropriates rather more than its share to 

 its own ends. 



The ash trees, {Fraxinns acuminata and Fraxinus sambucifoUa,') 

 called white and black ash, do very well, even when transplanted 

 in quite ordinary soils ; and their cleanly habits and handsome 

 contour and light graceful leaves render them all desirable. 



The horsechestnut tree QjFlsculus Mppocastaman') is most 

 easily raised from the nuts, which should be scarcely covered 

 with earth and leaves immediately on ripening and falling from 

 the trees, and transplanted when of convenient sizes. The tree 

 of Heaven (^Ailanthus glandulosa') grows very rapidly, and is 

 much sought for to plant in cities, where it thrives exceedingly ; 

 but its unpleasant scented flowers and disagreeable smelling 

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

 not lie against its relative, the Kentucky Coffee Tree, (^Gymno- 

 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-buildiag, nor always the 

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

 tree-planting ; and let every one ])lant 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 old ancestral trees. 



