The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-04-15
Correspondence Of the Registcr.l
Concert of Tire e-Plant1ng.

Correspondence Of the Register.
Concert of Tire Planting.
Nothing comparatively will be accom-.
plshcd in respect to rural establishment
BY tho use Of the May Day festival, it
effort is restricted to the larger villages
only. Those which arc the centres of
the moro strictly rural communities,
have part not whit less essential in
the general Advancement of the public
taste. 70 them belongs moro peculiar.
ly the work of ornamenting the general
landscape, aud presenting those clusters
of mingled natural and artificial i'm
provomcnt, that bespeak The chastenod
and elevated character Of the communi.
ty. Refinement, if aided by prosperity
in fair degree only, has its choicest
home at such points, and here discloses
most impressively its aptitude Of assoc.
alton both with nature aud with society
The cultivated taste is an instrument of
economy also, and makes the little which
is independently enjoyed an expression
of the sense o: beauty, equally with the
profuse bcllshments of wealth, and
displays more deicateiy the generosity
of temper, which in efforts on a larger
scale is suspected of ostentation.
With means larger or smaller where
the taste exists, its opportunity for the
cheapest exercise occurs with the time
of the starting of the leaf The genial
work Of tree. planting is Indicated then
when their growth is easiest and their
impulse TO spring into beauty alive while
you handle them. They fail often, but
if carefully set and protected they live
While we ourselves are living they lift
themselves playfully, and the birds of
the air Fl their proper nourishment
among their branches. We boast our
solves of their growth and fad encour-
agement in their progress from year to
year If We are young, they pass along
with us as cotemporaries. If old, they
survive US to beautify the scenes we
loved. The stranger recognizes them
from distance, and catches from them
perhaps an inspiration Of the same par
liality, by which the comeliness Of the
scene was SO exquisite to u.s. If we
look at a picture of foreign town, it is
its streets or buildings that are strange,
perhaps quaint and striking to US it is
its trees, expanding their boughs and
lifting up :hej: foliage, that seem famil.
lar, as if they might take us to their shad.
ow or we might win them to come and
shelter US. They arc for US because
they are for all, and when we plant in
the scenes that we love or would COM
mend to others, we may bring from tho
forest youthful aud vigorous tokens
whose language Of attraction, -outlast-
ing us, as they MAYS as universal as
tho children Of men, and always soothes
the heart.
At the more rural centres, the chatac.
ter of the town is tested AS cultiva.
ton is developed there, in influences that
reflect the taste or intelligence of its cit.
liens, will tho reaction of its highest
culture be upon the whole people. Tho
local districts have still nearer critic.
rion of their concern no, merely for the
pleasant aspect OF their neighborhoo6,
but for the moral benefit of those most
valued among them. Who can doubt
that the care exercised for what may DO
called the superhuous wants of children,
h. the habitual place of their instruction,
will implant in their hearts the love Of
their pursuits, and inculcate spiri, to
appreciate the means Of their elevation.
The most neglected spot of the commu.
nifty was once that where oentered the
interests of those for whom We pretend
to toll, and the pains yet expended upon
it were most complained Of Discipline
and labor was the burden laid upon it,
which only the elasticity OF youth eua
bled them 10 bear, ard no relief was
r. dreamed of except it were interposed
10 the participation of the teacher. 1t
was the exponent of parental selfishness,
yet blamed as an example o! human per.
vsrsity. 1t still less with US than the
choicest scene of interest of the moral
garden which we cultivate it is an in.
dictment of our loudest professions Of
humanity and parental duty.
Here the hand of the nCighborhood
may first concentrate its work, and ex.
tend it annual ly, wherever influences so
gentle upon affections so susceptible may
inculcate better standard of conduct
and purer aspiration, with tho genera.
tions which succeed US. No street is
too retired to need the gracos which nat
ural Embellishments imparis, nor can
families any where seclude themselves,
where the spirit Of its cheerful, affection.
ate beauty may no. attend them, -