68 THE SCHOOL GARDEN. 



tries that lie farther north have roads and lanes planted 

 with trees, while fertile plains in many regions here, 

 where valuable fruit could easily be cultivated, are 

 totally bare. 



Soon the beautifying hand of man will work over 

 home, garden and village. Railroad tracks, as in Bel- 

 gium, will be rich sources of revenue by the cultivation 

 of their borders. Many empty bits of land, and bare^ 

 mountain slopes or marshy places planted with bushes 

 and trees, will lend another physiognomy to the region. 

 The environs of villages will be planted in many places 

 with fruit trees, and where this is not advisable, with 

 forest trees and shrubs'; and many hitherto unprofit- 

 able and rude landscapes be transmuted into pleasing 

 and profitable ones. All the by-ways in villages, fields 

 and turnpikes will be furnished with trees or shrubs. 

 Living hedges will surround numerous fields, ridges 

 and dams ; the- borders of brooks and the edges of 

 ponds will be ornamented with the green of fruit trees, 

 or with forest trees and shrubs. In the cities, trees 

 will stand before the churches, around the fountains, 

 upon the sides of the most frequented streets and 

 squares. There will be promenades where they are not 

 now thought of. And, where the expense is feared, 

 people will be astonished at the liberality of the lovers 

 of man and nature who will furnish the required mate- 

 rial, the taste being once excited. 



To the most beautiful fruits of school gardens be- 

 longs the improvement that will take place in home 

 gardens. Models of these should be seen in all school 

 gardens where their is sufficient space. Not only for 

 their usefulness but for recreation is a home garden 

 invaluable for a proprietor and his family. When 



