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with noble inclinations. There is a grandeur of thought 

 connected with this heroic line of husbandry. It is worthy 

 of liberal and free-born and aspiring men. He who plants 

 an oak, looks forward to future ages and plants for posterity. 

 He cannot expect to enjoy its shelter, but he exults in the 

 idea that the acorn which he has buried in the earth shall 

 grow up into a lofty pile, and shall keep on flourishing and 

 increasing and benefiting mankind long after he has ceased 

 to tread his paternal fields." It was the trees of his own 

 planting at Sunny side-on-the-Hud son, more than the beauty 

 of the surrounding landscape, that led Irving to say, " After 

 all my wanderings, I return to this spot with a heartfelt 

 preference for it over all others in the world." It was the 

 simple beauty he had created at Marslifield, — the grassy 

 lawns, the shaded approaches, the hundreds of trees of his 

 planting, — that bound Daniel Webster so strongly to that 

 sequestered spot. The charm of Abbotsford, the grand Mecca 

 of Scotland, comes mainly from its beautiful ivy and shrub- 

 bery and the thousands of trees planted by the hand of its 

 illustrious proprietor. Says Sir Walter Scott, My heart 

 clings to this place I have created. There is scarce a tree in 

 it that does not owe its being to me. Once well planted, a 

 tree will grow when you are sleeping, and it is almost the 

 only thing that needs no tending." 



Any wealthy citizens of Connecticut, who desire to become 

 public benefactors, can hardly find a more inviting field for 

 their liberality than by offering prizes for sylviculture. A 

 few thousand dollars placed in the hands of the Connecticut 

 Board of Agriculture would widely stimulate tree-planting, 

 and greatly enrich the State. The Massachusetts Society for 

 Promoting Agriculture, offer three thousand dollars in the 

 following prizes : 



First. For the best plantation of not less than five acres, 

 $1,000 ; for the next best, 1600 ; and for the next best, $400. 

 For these prizes the European larch must be planted, except 

 in Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket counties, where the 

 Scotch pine or Corsican pine must be used, as best adapted 

 to sandy plains. Only plantations made on poor, worn-out 



