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tree. Save some sheltered spot for a trellis, where 

 you may plant a Delaware, an lona or two, a Re- 

 becca, and a Diana. Put a Concord at your south- 

 side door its rampant growth will cover your 

 trellised porch in a pair of seasons : it will give 

 you some fine clusters, even though you allow it to 

 tangle : the pomologists will laugh at you ; "but let 

 them : you will have your shade and the wilderness 

 of frolicsome tendrils, and at least a fair show of 

 purple bunches. Scatter here and there hardy her- 

 baceous flowers that shall care for themselves, and 

 which the children may pluck with a will. Don't 

 distress yourself if your half acre of lawn shows 

 some hummocks, or dandelions, or butter-cups. And 

 if a Avild clump of bushes intrude in a corner, don't 

 condemn it too hastily ; it may be well to enliven it 

 with an evergreen or two to dig about it, and paint 

 its edges with a few summer phloxes or roses. You 

 will want neither Scotchman nor forcing houses for 

 this." 



This is the way in which I should have talked to 

 my friend Lackland, who would want to take things 

 easy. 



I should not wonder if he were to buy his placfl 

 of two acres, and make trial. God bless him if bj 

 does. 



