FOURTEEN] CULTIVATION 
“Tt was a thousand dollars in my pocket. The 
animal, breaking loose in the night, would soon have 
torn my hedges and undone thirty years of work, 
care, and cost.”” The money value of the orna- 
mental is not easily overestimated. My own 
hedges, if extended in one line, would be a mile long. 
With about four acres planted to trees and shrubs, 
and five to berries, orchards and vineyards, I am 
able to sell $1,000 to $1,200 worth of fruit, honey, 
and vegetables annually. If the flowers went to 
market the cash income would be considerably in- 
creased. My drives are in length not less than half 
a mile, yet they are positive economy. Reaching 
about the house, and around the barn, and into the 
hearts of the gardens, they are too convenient at 
every point to be spared. 
The street-side should be particularly devoted 
to the beautiful. Here we may plant many of the 
fruit ‘trees for shade, or we may select such superb 
blossoming trees as the catalpa or the linden. The 
grouping of evergreens down a roadway is often 
agreeable. In some New England towns, and a 
few New York towns, I have seen the choicer 
shrubs in full bloom within reach of the hands of 
pedestrians, yet have been surprised that they were 
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