Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1841-09-10
POPULAR TASTE IN GARDENING.

We gave, in our last evenings paper, sew
oral extracts from an article in the last NUM-
her of the Christian Examiner, entitled
"Thc Popular Taste in Gardening" which,
we remarked were chosen more for their
truth and beauty than for any practical bear
ing which they had on the subject. Wcto-
day Subioin two or three more extracts from
the same ar,iclc.-BcSf0n Transcript.
"Thc moral effects, however, of the study
of rural beauty give it its chef dignity
These are attainablc by the multitude, not
of autlIors, but Of men aud women. They
are not the less real because Indirect. One
of the first recommendations Of such study
is, that it creates a feeling fundamental not
only in religious, but social prosperity, the
love of home. The binding associations OF
a dwelling and grounds neatly adorned with
the work of one's own hands, by the shrub
berry that has grown up under ones own
training, locate men. They are first made
domestic, contentcd, and Industrious, and
hence increase their independence and
sense OF responsibility.
"Tlie great portion o. crimes in this coun-
try, will he found 10 be committed by the
floating, homeless population, always the
most insubordinate. A genuine love of home
we believe, would be the best security against
the host of evils engendered by discomfort
and consequent recklessness. Much can be
done to infuse the pure tastes among labor
ers and tenants by the more cultivated order,
and especially by landed proprietors. The
truth contained in the remark of Madame
De S,ael, that "tlie luxury ofwonders always
implies a love of country" and of Herder,
that ''no people can have a national poetry,
that has not objects Of pride and graduation,
IN which all have community of interest,""
should teach philanthropists, and political
economists, and the advocates Of pure liter
ature, that the bonds between the soil and
its inhabitant cannot easily become too firm.
Culture and care are the first means Of CO.
menting the union. 1t is a f!autiful harmo-
ny that belongs to hearts.
"True to the kindred points of heaven and home"
!, 81 pity that man. exclaims an English
poet, with reference TO this subject, "wlic
has completed every thing in his garden"
n "Can we not safely say, that a %genuin,
II love Of natural beauty decpcns, without as
o suming that it implants, more sensibilities
, that it lays one under new persuasives t,
f holy life? In the language of one who ha
e overtime, reflection, and travel to the ru
raj and agricultural interests of our commit
nifty, 'the taste for flowers every where in
~crcasing among US IS an omen for good
k Let US adorn with them our parlors, door
h ways, yards, and roadsidcs. The moral in
fuences Of such embellishments deserve on
n serious consideration" We may yet com
n to realize, if we will, what among the the an
clients, as Il superstition and a fable, that bun
dies ofilowcrs will preserve the wearer from
a the fumes of designations, refresh the think
ing faculties and keep the affections Away
young.
n "Tianks to the human heartily which we live,
Thanks to It's tenderness, liz joys and fears,
To ell, the mcancst flower thai blows eau give
ii Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears"
" "Abundanto encouragement to those, who's
progress has as yet but begun, may be gath
cred from the history of horticultural pur
suits wherever they have been undertake
with spirit. Once commenced, they gene
lie rally grow in the public favor with rapidly
=" Ignorance of their whole nature, of til
availablcness of old necessary means, wit
the Indifference that prevails Of cours
at where actual experiments are hardly CON
a. mcnccd,--these are the most common an
r. efficient foes of the art. In the year l7G
he there were not more than six nurseries
N Scotland, occupying about sixty or sevent
to acres. In 1912 one mercantile house shi,
st st ped for foreign ports more THAI two million
n of seedlings. In the vicinity of London, a,
m. cordIng to an estimate made a few yea
~ since, within ten miles circuit, there a
thirteen hundred acres of land devoted
shrubberry and flowers, ana twice as maj
q to productions for the table. The first puI
lie botanical garden in Europe was CONNIE
-, ced by Cosmo De Medici in Pisa, in Il
cy year 1913, and in 1891 the number of nc
plants was so great that a second %enclosu
was laid out TO contain them. Among on
selves, indeed, within a very limited numb
o fspecics to more than five hundred.
The CALAToRNIA WHrAT.-The grain
this article was brought by a trader from MIDI
California, "a or % degrees north latituc
where it grows luyuriantly and yields abun
antly a suneror article Of Elnnr. Il WAS c