26 OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES. 



or orchard, can never be brought to that care and 

 nicety of observation, which, with the devoted Hor- 

 ticulturist, is a second nature. 



Most men goto the country to make an easy thing 

 of it. If they must commence study of all the later 

 discoveries in vegetable physiology, and keep a sharp 

 eye upon all new varieties of fruit lest they fall be- 

 hind the age ; and trench their land every third year, 

 and screen it may be in order to ensure the most 

 perfect comminution of the soil, they find themselves 

 entering upon the labors of a new profession, instead 

 of lightening the fatigues of an old one. Any 

 thorough practice of Horticulture does indeed involve 

 all this ; but there are plenty of outsiders, who, with- 

 out any strong ambition in that direction, have yet a 

 very determined wish to reap what pleasures they can 

 out of a country life, by such moderate degree of 

 attention and of labor as shall not overtax their time, 

 or plunge them into the anxieties of a new and en- 

 grossing pursuit. 



What shall be done for them ? To talk to such 

 people and I dare say scores of them maybe reading 

 these pages now about the comparative vigor of a 

 vine grown from a single eye, or a vine grown from a 

 layer, or about the shades of difference in flavor be- 

 tween a Vicomtesse berry and a Triomphe de Gand 

 is to talk Greek to them ; it is a,t> if a druggist were 



