St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-04-04

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"The marigold, that goes to bed with the sun
And with him rises weeping:" ,r
.''s"> - s.Daffodils,
That come before the swallow darcs,. and take
The winds Of March with beauty; yiolets, din
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes,
Or Cytherea's breath pale primroses t>.;..
.. ,..' T., x < bold oxlips,, and
The crown imperial; lilies of oil kinds,
The hower-de luce being one" -:
You can have such as adorned the fa.
nous walks of Tully and Plinny, or bloom
spontaneously " on the banks of the Ganges
in the short lived summer of Greenland
on the plains Of Peru; in the; valleys ol
California and Oregon, or such as spring
up in wild luxuriance on our own prairies
AS to the manner of laying out gardens,
Lord Bacon advises that '@they be square,
encompassed on all four sides with a state.
ly arched hedge" Mr. Kemp an English
gardener says: -.
"Where the place will at all justify it,
and it must be restricted indeed if it will
not do so,-the walks and plants should be
so disposed as to afford as many different
views as possible. From no single point,
unless it be an elevated one, should every
part be seen. A lawn need not be like a
bowling-green, with a simple fringe Of
plantation; but should have variety of
minor glades and recesses, that arc only
to be discovered and examined from par
ticular points,"
And MIR. Sargent, who has edited the
valuable work of the late A. j. Downing,
remarks:
"In this country, where we have no ru-
raj sports as in England, nothing in fact
for the amusement Of our friends and WIS.,
itors, except what is beautiful or interest
ing on our grounds or in our gardens, we
have always thought it highly desirable
not to tell our whole story from the house,
but to set aside in different and distant
portions of the place all our objects of in
tercst,--a flower garden in one spot, the
vegetable garden in another, an arboretum
or pinetum in third and so make and null
tiply as it were various interests in differ
eot rts,-properly connected, but as
widely separated as convenience or space
will allow.-which shall furnish to our
guests excuses for walk, and give to a
small place the appearance of large one.
In other words, to afford as much interest
and diversion as the capacity of the grounds
will allow, and prevent that emnui and fa-
tigue which nothing to see and nothing to
do produces, not only in our visitors, but
in our families. We cannot imagine any
thing more dreary than those country places
where there is no motive to 90 out, be-
cause everything is gathered and crowded
around the house, and can be seen from
the windows ~
We have many varieties Of native fruit
trees and l submit that some attention
should be given not only to the cultivation
of them, but to the planting Of shade trees
and evergreens. There are about eight
different species of eyergrecps indigenous
to England, but they have succeeded in
acclimating nearly hundred from differ.
ent parts Of the globe. We have many
handsome varieties of cvergrecns in Min.
nesota; among them the graceful arbor.
vite, the silver-tipped spruce, the balsam
and tho cedar, either or all Of which would
be ornamental to residence and contribute
much to disar winter of its cheerlcssness
and break the strong current eff the pene
trating winds. And among our native
shade trees there are some which have ,
special value such as the sugar maple, tn,
black walnut, and the hickory.
l see no excuse why the poorest citizs,
should neglect having a neat and produc
tive garden. IF he cannot convenient,
procure sawed lumber for fence, it is cas-!
to obtain rails-such as need no splitting
and poles, which with the bark on do no
only make the neatest, but the most fash
ionable kind Of fence; for what most ic
sembIcs nature has become the most fash
ionable rs we see by the settoes made 0
natural limbs of trees, and those NAL c
iron in imitation Of them. The labor O
one or two days will open the ground an
arrange the walks and beds. 1t is an cas-
matter then to yet an abundance Of shrub
berry. The plum, the blackberry, the rasr
beray, the curran. and the goosebcrry, al
delicious and all found in protusio
growing wild, will greatly improve tn
prospect. Much of the cultivation Of til
garden can then be left to the wife an
children. If they have not good healt
they will want little outdoor exercise I
regain it; and # they have health the
will want the air and exercise to prcserv
it. This sort Of exercise is much bette
than patent medicines. 1t cures hcadach
lin short, to use the expressive languae
Of Mr.. Spalding's advcrtiscment,-it wi
cure sick hesdache-"symp.omstic heat
ache" "idiopathic headache" "nervou
headache" and all kinds Of "headachc.
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