62 OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES. 



who can tell him how the Duke of Buccleugh (or any 

 other) managed such matters. 



God manages all of nature's growth and bloom in 

 such way, that every earnest man with an observant 

 eye can so far trace the laws of His Providence, as to 

 insure to himself a harvest of fruit, or grain, or 

 flowers. And whatever errors may be made are only 

 so many instructors, to teach, and to quicken love by 

 their lesson. 



Let us not then despair of our friend Lackland, 

 though his cabbages are burnt, and his beets are 

 behind the time. I shall visit him again, and trust 

 that I may find his verbenas and lilies in bloom, 

 though his larkspurs have been cut down. 



A Pig and a Cow. 



I PROPOSE an odd horticultural subject ; but the 

 man who plants a garden, and builds a cottage, 

 and carries in his thought the hope of shaking off the 

 dust of the city under green trees upon his own 

 sward land, where some nameless party in white 

 lawn, with blue ribbon of a sash (as in Mr. Irving's 

 pretty picture of a wife), stands ready to greet him, 

 after an hour of torture at the hands of our humane 

 railroad directors the man, I say, who looks forward 

 to all this, and enters upon the experience, thinks, 



