Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-03-27

Sir Walter Scott in his Hear. of Mid 10th
ian" makes the drunken dying Laird of Drum
bedikcs charge his son thus "Jock when We haze
naething else to Go, ye may aye be sticking in a
tree; it will be growing, Jock, when We are
sleeping" There is volume Of wisdom and
poetry in this advice. A full grown, well de-
veloped tree, is one of the noblest monuments
of taste man can erect around his abiding
place. The man is to be pitied who has never,
with song in his heart and on his tongue
transp lanted some denizen of the forest either
to his own premises Or to the highway where
it will grow when ne is sleeping" protecting
his house from the burning rays of the sun in
midsummer, and from the clustering winds in
winter and adding to it beauty and comfort and
to the town taste and attractivencss. 1t has
been wisely remarked that man who has pass
ed the meridian of hte cannot do more unset
fish thing than to transplant tree. Il twill
grow when he is sleeping the sleep OF death,
and every returning spring, when the warm
sunshine and genial showers shall touch it with
earliest green, and each summer clothe it in
densest foliage, there will be those who will
bless the decd with fervent hearts, and grateful
ly cherish the memory of him who made HIM
self public benefactor.
We have in this village, and we presume the
same is true of other towns in this county, an
association of individuals whose object is to or
namcnt portion ofthe public grounds by trans
planting shade trees. The season is approach
ing for them to renew their labors. They have
already commenced good work, which they
hope to continue as their means will allow
But this should not excuse individual owners of
building lots or farms. If every one of them
will set out but one tree yearly an aggregate of
happiness beauty and taste, will eventually be
attained Of which few people have an adequate
conception.
In some places the people Of school district
have devoted one day in the year to ornament
ing the grounds around their school-house-
Such an example could be followed to great ad-
vantage by every school district in Vermont.
How often we see these little nurseries of re-
publican institutions standing in some odd cor
ner, some lonely spot by the wayside, where it
seems as if they were placed to get them out Of
mind, exposed to the suitry sunshine of dog
days and the pitiless peltings of all manner Of
storms. In these little scminaries large amount
of the aggregate culture and taste of the coun-
try are formed Is it any marvel that that cul-
ture and that taste should in after life bear the
indelible marks of its early surroundings? OF
all places in the world, next to the parental
hearth, the district school house should be made
pleasant and attractive to those whose minds
there receive some Of their most lasting I'M
pressions. a few trees transplanted with care,
now and then superlluous rosc-bush which is
torn up at home in trimming the lawn, with
sprinklng of annual and perennial flowers which
would cost nothing buta few hours labor, would
not only render these places much less repulsive
to the occasional visitor, but would throw
around them charm and attractiyeness that
would allure the feet of the little pupils, and
displace whatever of evil may be in their little
hearts by occupying and filing them to reple-
ton with the lasting aroma produced by agree
able impressions.
Around the Church, mansion, farm house.
school-house, by the way-side, in every available
spot, plant trees. With every renewal of their
foliage they will bring perennial blessings upon
your memory, and make the world better from
your having lived and moved theYein.