New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-09
Horticultural society Of the American In
siifute.

The Rev. DR.. OsGooD addressed the meeting
Nov :. remarking that horticulture was one Of the
best pursuits 10 follow with mental culture-that gar
dening was a school, q workshop aud parlor. As a
school begins with the earth or mineral Kingdom ana
rises through the vegetable and animal world what a
school for study is afforded by the Central Palk, with
It's vast collection Of trees and plants; but even small
clod of earth n III subject for study exenpyng the
truth that wisdom Is oitentmes nearer when We soop
than when We sOar." Through all the grades 0f yegc
table life from the minute microscopic plants TO the
tall oaks there is world Of study ANA OF wisdom Bot
auy Is interesting study, pursued through the laws
Of vegetable growth, particularly when ilustra
ted b, the familiar plants around us
The gardener studies 10 get the greatest YIELD and he
should combine the beautiful with the useful, instead OF
striving TO separate them. We may hold up an apple
as thing of use, and point 10 flower "a II beautiful
object and Il brother and sister they nc least
frs cousins. Besides school OF learning, the garden
should be schoolhouse OF Divine faith. As work.
shop the garden Of the very best places TO de.
velop bone and MUSCLE Let q lacy take hoe rake
and IN few hours every muscle VIII mud its exercise.
and the garden is pleasant place in which 10 our
wives. sisters and daughters engneed-thc best of
all gimnasiunis Flora and Pomona were called hy
the anciculs feminine Diyintes. Why may not
class gardening among TIE hne arts II the
cities were lci 10 their own influences with no miera-
ton recruits from the country. the race OF citizens
would become extinct hence the attempt 10 bring
porto of the country and locate II IN the city Here
too We sae the relation 81 landscape gardening TO the
beautiful arts for besides some idea of architecture
the gardener must have eye for sculpture and select
ana plant his with reference 20 their scupiura
ciiuct. Lat NE ay-llnts are oicn produced by
group ~ trees as seen in the evening Besides the
gardener s painter Of no mean order using the coors
which nature furnishes and It is for him TO apply them
with ucss How very little too II takcs 10 surround
ones place with flowers compared TO the vast sums
paid for needless Injuries Take $500 for instance
which person can easily eat ZIP at fashionable res
tnuraut with "A few friends. and spend IL for phoxes
For iul two months enjoy their rich bloom. and
they remain for many years. There is poetry too in
tie garden which none better know than that father of
American poetry. William Cullen Bryant. who is
both eloquent and poetic over lis flowers. Our
education would be much perfect were 10 unite
The study of gardening with that Of books The garden
IL parlor it'll pleasing associations. We want some
thing when We come together to unite socially and
bring into affinity, which the garden is emlently
calculated to do. Are not the strawberry and grape
ministers Of civilization, II not Of eyangclzationf In
enjoying the lovely tnts OF flower We exhaust nothing
md rob no one while ut the same time we are brought
out OF our own selhshness. Abiding 70 his own at.
emps at reclamlng wild land, he spoke Of purchase
eight acres eight years ago the abode Of snakes and
rows which by Judlcous laying out and clearing up
lad now become Of the handsolnest places in town
believing that in these times every man should show his
olors. be Lad erected rustic cedar tower upon large
oek, and from It's summit unuied the flag of his coun.