, 1842-06-04
From the Wew Genesee Farmer.
Ornamental Trees.

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ought to be more strongly impressed
upon the farmers. "Put atree down;
it will be growing while you are sleep
ing" Many Of them enrich the
country; all adorn it, and thus essen
tally encrease the value of an estate,
and render the country more health
full as well as beautiful. Every place
on a farm, where they can grow
without injury to other crop, ought
to be planted with trees. Timothy
Walker, of Charlestewn, Middlesex
county, lately deceased, left a legacy
of some hundreds of dollars to be ex.
pended in planting ornamental trees
on some of the great roads in that
town. This was a noble bequest;
and places him among the benefactors
OF the communitYp 1t is an example
worthy of imitation. A taste for the
beauties of natural scenery cannot
be too much cultivated among us.
A taste for natural beauty is closely
allied to a taste for moral beauty.
The more attractive our homes are
rendered, the more shall we love our
homes; and the love of home is the
parent of many kind and amiable af.
fections.
A taste for natural beauty is an or
iginal element Of the mind. 1t may
be strengthened, elevated, and en-
larged by education; it appears even
in the rudest minds. and thus speaks
its divine origin. ! believe the per-
ception of beauty exists in all ami
mails; or why should they have been
made so beautiful?
Natick in Middlesex Co., the seat
Of the first christian mission to the
Indians. where the benevolent Eliot.
designated as the Apostle, sought to
pour into the minds of these children
of nature, benighted with the thick
darkness Of superstition, the heavenly
rays of inspired truth. Eliot was
followed by 4 worthy successor, Oliver
Peabody. The Indians appreciated
the blessings of the religion of peace
and love which he taught them; and
in gratitude for his services, these
sons Of the forest, 20 whom the trees
seemed as their own kindred, came
in a deputation bringing two elms.
and asked leave to plant. in front of.
the humble dwelling of the mission
airy, these stress of friendship" This
was in 1922, and these stood for 80
years, when one was rived by light.
ming, and the other seemed TO perish
through sympathy. When the sue
cessor Of MIR. Peabody, Mr.. Badger,
was settled in 1853, the Indians offer
ed the same token Of respect and
the same pledge Of good will to him.
These trees are still in full vigor. and
remain as beautiful monuments of
affection. which have gone out OIL
earth, but are destined to be rekind-
led and burn with a purer flame.
Nature is every where prodigal Of
beauty, as if she would stimulate the
passions for it to the utmost extent.
Among the varied combinations Of
charming objects, which mingle in a
rural landscape, the trees are preem-
inent. Sometimes rising in single
cones so exact and symmetrical in
their form, that they seem the perfec-
ton of art; some times bending their
outrageous limbs in curves and lines
OF the most graceful expansion; some
some times bending their boughs to
the earth loaded with golden and
crimsoned fruit, and when the sun
pours its bright rays upon them, pre-
senting not an inapt image OF that sa-
cred bush where the divine presence
wrapt itself in robes of fire; some
times seeen in long single lines skirt
ing the travellers path; some times
in beautiful clumps and clusters, az
fording a greatful shade to the pant