Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-01-26
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

not more than the adoption into their dooryards of
Il few handsome specimens OF w~hitewood, white
ash, rock elm, rock maple, or other native trees,
from the nearest woodland. The work need not
be done all ut once; but q few seasons porseverance
thereafter, as leisure Or fancy may suggest, will
accomplish it.
We t.ust, as the ability Of the rural population
and their attention becomes more gene
rally directed to the Establishment of their homes.
they will proportionately crafty those tastes winch
are not wanting, but only dormant, from constant
attention to The more practical details OF husband
ry. A liberal display of accomplishment In THIS
charming department of rural affairs not only
surely exerts u genial, humanizing influence upon
the inmates and upon neighbors, but often is an
index that gives the fir. favorable impression to
the eye OF the passer-by, who pauses to admire II
tidy farmhouse, encircled and skirted with ample
pleasure grounds, or half uncovered with lnterla'
cling trees and vines.
K sufficient area might be inclosed about every
farmers dwelling for the exhibition OF a degree OF
practical taste in landscape gardening, ana ior
those who can not afford to rear a forest upon their
best grounds purely for shade, there are plenty OF
good substitutes in the rarer fruits not usually
grown in the orchard, many OF them ornamental
and quite appropriate us lawn trees. We would
prefer planting near our premises at first q good
proportion of trees that combine beauty of form
and foliage. with fruits for the family to get II taste
of, or some of the improved varieties OF nuts Tor
the children to gather and crack during the long
winter evenings, instead of setting out forest trees
exclusively or on a large scale. Cherries, arrlcots,
pears, ounces, and grapes, as well as some ct the
finer kinds of shellbarks, MADEIRA nuts, almonds,
and chestnuts, are in keeping with the dporyard
or park, and are planted less frequently than they
deserve to be.
Meantime, room could be found for a sprinkling
of our native oak, elm, maple, pine, hemlock, ETC.,
from the woods, interspersed with an occasional
group or arbor Of some of the many elegant spe.
cies Of both deciduous and evergreen trees and
shrubs cultivated in the nurseries. The horse
chestnut, for a dense, deep shade-the mountain
ash, conspicuous from its ~profusion of bright scar,
let berries--the larch, for a spire-like form, and its
vivid silky foliage, and the weeping willow, with
out a peer, for pendent gracefulness, and desirable
from its long season of verdure, though not indl
genous to our clime-arc all of them striking fol
contrast, and should not be overlooked in localities
where they can be readily procured.
Many, doubtless, are discouraged or deferred
from planting, either for the grove or orchard
through an impotence to enjoy the fruits of theil
labor; for, unlike the majority of farm improve
ments, a lapse of time is required to bring then
to well grown maturity; yet in many cases trees
of large size cad be selected, and it should bt
borne in mind that n tree once well established ii
continually progressing, and that there is a beau
ty and a source of satisfaction in every stage of it
after development to the real lover of nature.