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Great Britain. To the same nation is due the credit of having improved 

 public cemeteries, by converting them into attractive, instead of repulsive 

 objects. A proper disposition of the dead, and a becoming tribute of re- 

 spect to their ashes, by ^seeing that churchyards are neatly enclosed, shaded 

 with ornamental trees and shrubs, with the addition of appropriate sepul- 

 chral monuments, should certainly not be subjects of indifference to the 

 living. Wilson, the distinguished ornithologist, made a particular request 

 but a few hours before his death, that he might be buried in some rural spot, 

 on the banks of the Schuylkill, where the birds might sing over his grave. 

 The sentiment was true to nature ; for, let philosophy preach as it may, 

 our cares and anxieties, our feelings and affections, will extend to the un- 

 conscious dusl. 



" Of the utility of shading waste places with the-luxuriant and beautiful 

 foliage of our own forests, there can be no doubt. If the proverb which 

 declares, that no man has fulfilled the purposes of his existence till he has 

 planted a tree, did not emanate from Solomon, it is worthy of his wisdom 

 and of his taste for botanical pursuits. Would to Heaven, the duty it in- 

 culcates were engraven upon the palm of the hand, and impressed upon 

 the heart, of every citizen of the United States I Were the requisite autho- 

 rity delegated to me, I should feel disposed to issue an edict, setting apart 

 a particular day, at the most suitable season, when the whole community 

 should rally on public service, to consist exclusively in planting trees and 

 shrubs on every vacant foot of ground, where they could conduce either to 

 utility or ornament. They should line every road, shade every walk, and 

 overhang every fountain." (p. 17.) 



Timber, it seems, is likely to become scarce in America as well as in 

 England, and proprietors, whose fathers or grandfathers were compelled to 

 cut down forests as necessary to their existence as cultivators, are now 

 exhorted to plant oaks and pines from principles of policy and patriotism : 

 " to be frugal of the oak, whence are to spring the fleets of a great nation, 

 and to respect the pine, destined, perhaps, to bear the American eagle 

 across the seas, and to waft our future navies to new victories." 



Mr. Carter concludes his elegant and judicious address, by expressing his 

 hopes that a portion of public ground, suitable for a garden on an extensive 

 scale, may soon be obtained for the joint use of the Horticultural and Lin- 

 nean Societies. 



New York Farmer, and Horticultural Repository. New York. 4to. No. I. 

 To be continued monthly. 



This promises to be a useful work, because supported by the best practical 

 names in the neighbourhood of the place where it is published. Among these 

 names are our correspondents Dr. Hosack, Mr. Buel, Mr. Thorburn, Mr. 

 Floy, and Mr. Hogg; Mr. Parmentier of Brooklyn, near New York ; Mr. 

 Wilson of Clermont, New York j Dr. Miller, the Secretary to the New York 

 Horticultural Society ; Dr. Pascalis, the President of the New York Branch 

 of the Paris Linnean Society ; and various others. In the introduction it 

 is stated, that the work will receive the countenance of the New York 

 Horticultural Society, and the assistance of several agricultural writers, both 

 of America and Europe. Under such favourable auspices, there can be little 

 doubt that this journal will deserve success, and we hope it will obtain it. 

 We shall be happy if our pages afford anything worth extracting, thinking 

 it cannot be less satisfactory to our correspondents than to ourselves, to 

 be known and remembered as useful in our day and generation, in Ame- 

 rica as well as in Europe. 



