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("^accumulation and preparation of farmyard manure. It is true, we^' 



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can purchase guano, bone dust, poudrette, super-phosphate of lime, 

 &c, all good and useful ; but there is continually wasting and running 

 to loss as good a fertilizer as any of these — the deluging showers carry 

 with them the rich washings of our cattle yards. No provision is 

 made, in many instances, for its preservation ; no tank is cut, no site 

 or bed is marked out for the deposite of the refuse as it accumulates. 

 We have seen much attention given to this matter, and it repays the 

 farmer for all the care bestowed; when the white fumes of ammonia 

 have commenced to ascend, we have seen immediate steps taken to 

 cover it with a layer of fresh material of an absorbing nature ; we 

 have always seen the careful farmer deposit a layer of fresh mould or 

 peat over the bottom of the site for his manure heap, to absorb the 

 gases and liquids descending or coming in contact therewith, and the 

 composition of all this matter and its action on the soils and crops ex- 

 plained and proved. The composition of soils also receives attention 

 at a well managed model farm, intended to improve and instruct the 

 youth who are to become our next generation of food producers. Prac- 

 tical lectures are given on all topics intimately connected with Agri- 

 culture, and then actual practice in the field follows — and all this is a 

 profitable investment of capital. Such a well managed model farm is 

 not only self-supporting, but in the end remunerating. Other less 

 noble governments have their model farms — America, we hope, will 

 soon add them to her list of free and progressive educational insti- 

 tutions. 



Foreign Trees in Landscape Gardening. 



BY THOMAS MEEHAN. 



The following remarks were written some time ago and intended 

 for the "Horticulturist," as they were the result of the perusal of the 

 article on "Rural taste and its Mission." Since then the subject has 

 been referred to in your pages, and the Horticultural Editor of the 

 Genessee Farmer has observed that the subject has commanded all 

 at once unusual attention — no doubt because many persons disapprove 

 of treating the subject in a narrow or limited sense. It is hoped the 

 following observations will tend to place the matter on a better foot- 

 ing. 



A landscape is the appearance which any portion of the earth pre- 

 sents in combination. Water, land, trees, or anything that varies the 

 surface of the earth, cannot properly be considered as forming a land- 

 scape, unless they are more or less taken together. A landscape is 

 pleasing, when the parts which severally compose it are arranged in 

 9p accordance with well known principles, which always or generally 

 ^elicit admiration. When the arrangement of these parts are in op- 



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