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hand, enriches but slowly, but its accompaniments are, plenty, 

 independence, ease, comfort, sobriety, liealth, contentment, hap- 

 piness, and many other real blessings, which no other pursuit 

 ever can afford in like degree. 



Either leave both manufactures and agriculture to take care of 

 themselves, or extend to both the same kind and degree of en- 

 couragement. They are intimately related, and can be made to 

 work for each other in a w^ay that will promote the interests of 

 both, and consequently increase the prosperity of the country, as 

 well as lessen the evils just named. Let them move on, then, 

 hand in hand. To build up manufactures at the expense of agri- 

 culture is a suicidal policy, to say the least of it, and only worthy 

 of a dark and despotic age. Something will have to be done for 

 agriculture ere long by somebody ; a stern necessity will demand 

 it in a voice that will make itself heard. Our old lands are 

 wearing out fast by a wretched system of culture, and even the 

 virgin soil of the west will not last forever. Let this fact be 

 borne in mind. 



And here I would ask why botany is not a very proper study 

 for young ladies ; and what should prevent them from acquiring 

 some knowledge of mineralogy and entomology at the same time ? 

 How many listless hours some young ladies might be spared if 

 they possessed only a slight knowledge of these delightful sciences- 

 How many things, which are now looked upon with little or no 

 interest, might be made instinct with gratification. Every school 

 house should have a garden spot attached to it, and an hour or 

 so each day allotted to its culture. Besides the mental and 

 physical advantages peculiar to itself, such a course would fit the 

 pupils to give their minds to their studies with renewed energies. 

 These things must be made a part of our common school educa- 

 tion, even if the dancing master has to be kicked out of doors 

 after the most approved manner of doing such honors, which, in 

 my humble opinion, the modern specimen ought to be under anj 

 circumstances. Nature is a much better teacher than he. 



To be brief, we must, in addition to all this, use all our endeav- 

 ors to effect a wider diffusion of the taste for flowers. Every 

 house should have its garden spot, which should be tastefully 



