Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-05-22
Fresh aud Green.

Fresh aud Green.
The recent rain has given the woods and
fields peculiarly fresh and green appear.
ance. The morning air is clear and bracing
and fragrant with the odor of Spring. We
never saw the hills and vallies in this vicin-
ity look more pleasing and Spring like than
at this present writing.
The gardens and door yards in the village
many Of them, are exceedingly beautiful
Nearly every house, which has few spare
proved with something green and growing.
There is always something intert sting in the
sight of o growing tree or shrub, little
flower or even tuft OF grass in barren spot.
A writer has truly said, 50 one cannot help
thinking well of the people who train vine
beside the door, even if it be nothing but a
hop and if he can fad that one to whom he
never accredited the possession of the faint
est pulsation of heart, cherishes little
flower in some corner Of his tangled garden,
even if it be nothing but poor old-fashioned
poppy, that man rises in his estimation, and
he believes there is yet some good, some
love of beauty alive in him.
There should always be something beau
tiful about homestead. A little time and
small expense will secure that which will
make home attractive and happy, and
greatly tighten the burthen of labor and
care. Plant few trees, or flowers, or shrubg.
Sow little clover about your cottage, or
cabin, however humble or retired it may be.
Don't be selfish, OF neglect such a work be-
cause the ground may not be your own.-
Somebody will enjoy it-and somebody may
now be planting for you where you little
think. Be happy in the thought, that if you
never live to set under The vine you have
! planted, somebody else will, and will bless
you for the pleasure they will then receive.
Plant trees and flowers around your dwell
ing, and then when you go from your
! present home, you gill carry with you nap
| py memories of viue-clad walks, of beautiful
trees with lucious fruits, and the birds sing
ing gaily in the wooing branches. May be
you will decorate a place where you may
spend your life, or perhaps make yerdant the
spot under which your body may sleep when
your spirit goes over the river
The editor Of the Shasta Republican has
planted some trees and thus beautifully al
ludes to it -" We have planted some little
trees. We expect to see birds build nests in
tbair cyuoa dino brs0ohou o1d - roou bo Al 4
they will finally cast mottled shadows on
our grave"
We also have planted "some little trees"
and have spent many leisure bours of late in
decorating the " waste place" about our
humble dwelling, with flowers and shrubs
and creeping vines. We may never gather
their fruits, or even witness the next springs
blooming of the modest little daises or the
bright verbenas, or any Of their kindred
flowrets which cur own hands have planted !;
but we have already been more than repaid
for the time and expense of their planting
and training, in the pleasure We have enjoy
ed in watching their young growth, and
witnessing the pleasant change, though yet
small aud unpretending, that our OWE honest
labor has produced, on little spot Of ground,
which but enc year since, was as much
stranger to cultivation as at the day on
which the Creator first pronounced it 'geod.'
Reader, have you house or cabin, or
little nook or corner, which, for the present
you call home," and have you ever plant
ed tree or a flower upon it? If not, take
spade and DO SO before you sleep. The
act will give you pleasant dreams, and you
will be happy in the idea that you have eau
10 a green leaf to grow, where perhaps none
ever grew before.