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ject to any course of tillage, will be kept in pasture, 

 and will have their little modicum of shade. The 

 good farmer will be desirous of establishing this 

 shade around the brooklet or the spring which waters 

 his herd, or as a sheltering belt to the northward and 

 westward of his lands : the landscapist cannot surely 

 object to this. The same shelter along the wayside 

 is agreeable to all aesthetic laws, and does not surely 

 militate against any of the economies of farming. 

 Indeed, I may remark here, as I have already done in 

 the progress of these pages, that the value of a shel- 

 tering belt of trees is not sufficiently appreciated as 

 yet by practical farmers ; but those who are not 

 insensible to the quick spring growth under the lee 

 of a northern garden-fence, will one day learn that an 

 evergreen belt along the northern line of their farms 

 will show as decisive a gain in their fields or their 

 orcharding. 



Again, in the disposition of roadways, there is no 

 rule in landscape gardening which is not applicable 

 to a farm. Declivities are to be overcome by the 

 easiest practicable grades, and the curves which will 

 insure this in most landscapes are those which are 

 justified at a glance by the economic eye, as well as 

 by the eye of taste. A straight walk up and down a 

 hill, is a monstrosity in park scenery ; and it is a 

 monstrosity that cannot be found in pasture-lands, 



