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be accomplished by improving what, to many are worse than idle 
moments. By arranging business to meet the object, fifty or a 
hundred trees, may be set by the fanner at proper times, for per- 
forming the operation, and he will hardly know that he has been 
so employed, from the difference it will make in other avocations. 
The result of such labors, will be what you all, when they are 
accomplished, will admire. 
Aged men, plant out, as your sun is hastening towards its even- 
ing sky, plant out a tree. By so doing, you will create an object 
upon which the men of a future age will gaze with admiration, 
and secure a faithful remembrance in the hearts of posterity, 
which will awaken them as life wanes away, to the performance 
of many a noble and worthy deed. 
Young men and youth, plant ornamental trees, and as you ad- 
vance in years, they will advance in symmetry of form and state- 
liness of proportion, fit emblems of well educated and cultivated 
minds, and when you are old, and care has blanched your brow, 
and sorrow dimmed your eyes, you may sit under their goodly 
shadows and remember the days of freedom from care, and buoy- 
ancy of spirit, when you gave them locality. What beautiful 
memorials of time gone by will they afford, and what a noble ex- 
ample to the young of future years, to carry forward the generous 
plan you so nobly contribute to advance. 
Feb., 1848. 
Melon Liquor. — Crichton, in his History of Arabia, states 
" that the melons are raised in fields, and in such abundance, that 
the natives of all ranks use them for some part of the year as their 
chief article of food. When nearly ripe, the fruit is pierced into 
the pulp; this aperture is then stopped with wax, and the melon 
left upon the stalk. By means of this simple process, the pulp in 
a few days is converted into a delicious liquor." In a fertile 
country, such as our own, where melons is raised in such ample 
profusion, this easy method of producing a cool and refreshing beve- 
rage during the heats of summer, should surely not be unknown. 
