THE TREES OF AMERICA. 9 



value, was covered with fruit trees, which in a few years produced an annual 

 income of more than twelve hundred dollars. " The father of the late Duke of 

 Athol lived to see a ship launched that was built out of the larch wood planted 

 by himself on his naked Scotch hUls." This larch flourishes well with us, and 

 there are thousands of places, where it and other valuable woods should be 

 planted, which would yield a thousand per cent., upon a very small outlay. It 

 is calculated, by the able editor of the Horticulturist, that five hundred dollars 

 worth of locust trees, planted at the birth of an infant, on land of moderate 

 value, would be worth more than ten thousand dollars at its majority. 



In order to foster and rightly develop this love of trees, which, according to 

 a celebrated writer, is peculiarly the property of the northern races, several meth- 

 ods suggest themselves, which have been before presented by the lamented 

 Downing and others. First, every private individual who owns a garden should 

 every year give some portion of his own time, and that of his gardener, if he 

 employs one, to his neighbors and the public, in order to beautify and improve 

 his town or village. There is no benevolence which pays a higher money interest 

 than this. But we would not urge this as a motive, though it may properly have 

 its influence ; nor do we think that it often enters into the calculations of those 

 generous tree planters, whose favorite pursuit, according to Irving, is so ennobling 

 in its nature. We know of one gentleman, who has pursued this course, and in 

 a few years has, by his generous system, more than doubled the value of his own 

 property, and that of his neighborhood. We were pleased to see inscribed over a 

 beautiful arched entrance to his groxuids, " People are requested to walk in these 

 grounds," and though fruit and flowers are exposed in every direction, his confi- 

 dence is never abused. Where there is not time to devote to this object, trees 

 might be given away, upon the condition that they be carefully planted and cared 

 for ; and, as every successful cultivator must have some proper method of trans- 

 plantiag, &c., he should give some little instruction to the recipients of his gifts, 

 in order to secure, as far as possible, a successful result. There is nothing in 

 which people fail so often as in transplanting trees, and yet nothing is easier, or 

 more certain, if it is conducted upon correct principles. We shall give a few 

 simple rules in another part of this work, which we think cannot fail of being 



