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No stronger proof, perhaps, of the immense advantage result- 

 ing from a highly improved agriculture can be given, than is 

 found in the fact that many of these tenant farmers, after 

 spending upon land not their own, from ten thousand to twen- 

 ty thousand dollars, for lime, guano, drainage and costly farm 

 implements, and, after paying (no slight matter there) all the 

 taxes, are still able to lay by something for themselves. 



But these successful cases, though there are many of them, 

 must still be regarded as exceptions, and, when considered as 

 arguments for the general arrangement under which they ex- 

 ist, are about as conclusive as the old plea for slavery on the 

 ground that so many of the slaves appeared to be perfectly 

 contented. To us it seems simply impossible, that a disparity 

 so vast as that which now strikes every eye — and a condition 

 60 barren of comfort and of hope, as the present condition of 

 the lower classes in England, can remain unchanged a great 

 deal lonorer. 



GRASS. [See page 25.] 



The superlative loveliness of a perfect, well-kept, ornamen- 

 tal lawn, is but just beginning to be seen and felt among us. 

 The teachings of the New York Central Park, in this re- 

 spect, will not be lost. Fine examples, on a smaller scale, 

 may be found around several of the North Eiver Villas. 

 The lawn will come in time. But, do we appreciate, as we 

 ought, what we already have ? The green covering of the 

 varied, undulating ground? The verdant beauty of the hill- 

 side pasture — of the luxuriant field, and the low-lying mead- 

 ow ? Ask any intelligent, Essex County man, who, within 

 the last two years, has traversed in weary marches, the grass- 



