Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1841-09-16
THE MORALS GARDENING

We make this capital extract from an
eloquent article on Gardening and rural
Beauty in the last Christian Examiner:
The moral effects or the study of rural
beauty give i, It's chief dignity. These
are aitainable by the multitude, not oi
authors, but OF men and women. The
binding associations OF dwelling and
grounds neatly adorned by The work oi
ones own hands, by the shrubbery that
has grown up under ones own training,
locate men. They are first made domestic,
contenlcd, and industrious, and hence in
crease their Independence and sense Oi
responsibility. The great proportion Of
crimes in this country will be found to be
committed by the floating, homeless pop
ulaiiup, always the most Dsubordinate.-I
A genMne love Of home, We believe,
would be the best security against the
hos, OF evils engendertd by discomfort
and consequent recklessness. Much
can be done TO inluSc these pure tastes
among laborers and tenants by the more
cultivated order, and especially by landed
propiieiors. The. truth contained in the
remark of Madame De Stacl, that "the
luxury of wonders always implies n love
of country" and Of iIerder, that "no
people can have a national poetry, that
has not objects of pride and graduation,
in which all have community Of inte-
rest" should teach philanthropists, polit-
ical economists, and the advocates of a
pure literature, that the bonds between
the soil and its inhabitant cannot easily
become too finn. Culture and care are
the first means OF cemening the union
II is a beautiful harmony that belongs to
hearts.
"True to the Kindred points ofheaven IN home"
81 pity that man." eXclams an En-
glsh poet, with reference to this subject,
"who has completed every thing in his
garden"
Can we not safely say, that a genuine
love OF natural beauty deopens, withou;
assuming that il impants, moral sensibl-
tiles, that it lays one under new persua-
sves TO holy lite ? In the language
Of one who has given time, reflection
aud travel to The rural and agricultural
interests OF our community, "the taste
for flowers every where increasing among
Us in an omen for good. Let US adorn
with them our parlors, doorways, yards,
and roadsides." The moral influences
of such embellishments deserve our Sc
rious conside Grafton" We may yet come
TO reatize, If we will, what among the
ancients was superstition and a fable,
that bundles Of flowers will preserve the
wearer from the fumes Of dissi patton, re-
fresh the thinking faculties and keep tn G
affections always young.
"Thanhs to the human heart by which we live
1hanhs 10 its tenderness, It's JOYS and Tears,
To Att, the meamest flower that blows eau give
Thoughts TINT do oiien lie TOO deep for tears"
Abundant encouragement to those,
whose progress has yet but bcgun, may
be gathered from the history OF horticul-
tural pursuits whenever they have been
undertaken with spirit. Once commen-
ced, they generally grow in the public
favor with rapdity. Ignorance OF their
whole nature, of the avallabeness Of the
old necessary means, with the indifler-
cncc that prevails of course " here actual
experiments are hardly commenced, these
are the most common aud most efficient
foes OF the art. In the year 1850 there
were not moie than six nurseries in Scot
land, occupying about sixty or seventy
acres. In 1879, one mercantile house
shipped for foreign ports more than two
millions of seedlings. In the vicinity of
London according to an estimate made
few years since, within tea miles cir
cult there are thirteen hundred acres of
land devoted 10 shrubbery and flowers,
and twice ns many TO productions for the |
table. The first public botanical garden
IN Europe was commenced by Cosmo
Dc Medici in Pisa, in the year l543,
and in 1891 the number of new plants
was so great that a second enclosure was
laid out to contain them. Among our
selves indeed, within very short period
roses have increased from very limited
number Of species to more than five hun
dred