Lower Sandusky freeman. (Lower Sandusky [i.e. Fremont, Ohio]) 1849-1849, 1849-04-14
From the Ohio CuIuvator.
A Letter for the Girls.

A Letter TOr tine G1FKSs
On ptanting Trees and Shrub6ery- Culture Of
FioWers-Making Home attractiue
Come, ghls get your sunbonnets, find your old
gloves put on your thick shoes, and come out in
the sunshine 1t is quite time to begin to think of
your outdoors work In few weeks it viii be
time for gardening and it is already time to see
about improving your door-yards.
Have You trees and shrubbery about the door,
10 invite the birds and the cool breezes to gladden.
your homes in the summer? If not now is the
time Coax these tall brothers of yours to take the
spade. and an old axe, if necessary, and go with
you to the borders of the forest to procure shade
Trees
Take some of those thrifty naples and elms, and
transplant them in front Of the house. They are
so free from the annoyance of worms and insects,
that you need not fear to place them in close prox
unity to your dwelling.
Then there is the tribe of poplars that will add
most agreeable variety by the color of their foliage
andthe beauty of their proportions The lockwood,
though not quite SO symmetrical in its form, will
more than redeem itself by its snowy blossoms in
spring and its crimson leaves In autumn.
If you can find few evergreens to mingle with
the rest and few sprouts of the locust you can
make almost Eden of your little dooryard at the
cost of few mornings labor Five years hence,
you would not part with these cheaply purchased
embellishments for hundred times the labor.
] wonder if you have any rose bushes about your
premises? If pou have not, your neighbors have
and know they would not grudge few small roots
that by little care will in few years add much
to the beauty of your homes. A climbing rose,
trained over the window and honeysuckle ever the
porch, viii pay in perfumery for the little trouble
they cost; and any of your friends who possess
them win be happy to aid you if they see you bent
ON improving your grounds A small slip of hon
eysuckle that would be trimmed off and thrown
away as useless pruning, can be buried in the
same manner that grape slips are, and in few
years you viii have beautiful vine to embelish
your arbor
By the way don't forget how easily grapes are
cultivated, and what luxury they afford Keep
an eye out, and when there is an opportunity, Sc
cure few dozens fine Slips and get your father to
cultiyating them. By the time these matters are
all seen to thoroughly, you will find the weather
suitable to begin garden work.
Now don't look sour about it, and say it isn't Ia
dy like to work in the garden. told you to get
your gloves on purpose to keep your hands from
being needlessly soied, and your complexion will
be preserved from the sun by good sun-bonnet;
while the vigor and buoyancy acquired by exercise
in the open air will give a tone of beauty much
more desirable than any Interesting paleness
you can secure by sitting roomed up in the house
all day.
Get an appropriation of ground for flower bed
or two if possible. If not see to it that the beds
for common vegetables are bordered with flowers
plant some around the doors and windows too
some pretty running plant like the morning glory,
cypress vine, Towering pea or bean, and see to it
that they do not get choked out with weeds
Half an hour every day, will plant the seeds and
keep in fine order an amount of beauty truly aston
isbing.
The humblest log cabin in Ohio can be made an
attractive home by little labor that should rather
be called pastime.
Perhaps you think your fathers viii hardly smile
on your efforts It may be that they even speak
contemptuously of flowers If so there is need
of better ministration to their spirits. l never
vet met with the man who was not pleased after
once witnessing a successful effort to make home
cheerful by such simple adornings
When we remember that flowers are the gift of
God to his children, rendered so cheap, in their
peerless loneliness that the meanest condition of
life may be embelished by them, it seems almost a
sin to neglect them and the gentle influences they
bring to weary hearts.
fear we do not sufficiently estimate the effect
Of these things upon human character. The gen
tie lessons. the holy feelings inspired by contempla-
ton of these innocent emblems, cannot possibly fail
to render our hearts purer and better if we receive
them Alright
Enter upon this work then, my dear girls, as
ministering to higher part of your nature than
mere fancy, since every form of beauty is one of
Gods lessons of love to his creatures
Look up the dower-seeds, exchange with your
neighbors and let the beauty of your homes testify
to the cheerful industry of your hands, NJ