Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-07-27
From the New England Farmer.
Culture Of Rural Tastes.

Did il ever occur TO you, kind reader how
much lies in your power to allay the UNI
healthy desire so largely prevailing among
our people for cmigrating TO new regions.
new scenes, etc. ? Ifnot will you at once
,ook around you and see whether, by ma
KING your nome more attractive, you cannot
no someihihg towards cutivating an attach
ment TO home scenes and home associationsY
Make your dwelling and lis s,rroundings
more attractive. Let habits of svstom. Or
der, ana ncatncss be formed where not al
ready in practice TO their full extent SIR
round your dwellings with flowers shrubs
and trees, tastelully arranged. and selected
with reference TO harmony and contrast
Their beauty and perfume will attract tbe
eye and rcgalc the senses, and serve to re-
call the mind of the tired and weary from
dwelling upon self Bcautfy and adorn the
inside OF your dwelling with appropriate Or
nainents, such as will at once attract the eve
and serve to educate the taste and the mind
IT'S to the young or rising generation that
we must look to supply the places of the IA
Tiers and mothers Of the present. and TO
their education we should add the influence
OF refining and agreeable associations. such
a. Will serve TO create a love and attachment
TO the home of ohldhood's years.
Rural life may be made more attractive
by properly educating the young and instil-
ling into their minds the idea that the Gull
ture of the soil is cleyating in its tendencies:
that, in the words of the father of his conn
try, agriculture is the most healthflll. most
useful, and most honorable employment of
man. Children brought up under the in
l1uence of an atmosphere of such surround
ings and teachings will be likely in after
years to look back upon that home a, the
brightest gem among their treasured child
mood memories like Il star shining pure
ana bright above earthly strife. pointing 10
n better land.
Let II not be the aim to cultivate the orn-
amental to the exclusion of theusefll-such
as the larger as well as small frnits. etc. but
let each have its appropriate share of atten
ton. There is beauty and instruction TO be
admired and gained in the growth and pro-
ductlon OF the useful, as well as in the orna-
mental only. Teach the young what lies
hidden from the eye INTEREST," them in cause
and elect teach them to study into what
lies hidden in the seed of any single plant
the study into the way in which it produces
It's like will interest and at the same time ex-
pand the mind. Teach them that the seed
contains the future plant in eR5Iyo. and that
IN order to produce the plants certain pre-
requisites are necessary that those prercd-
ulsities are good soil, air, moisture etc that
the seed must be deposited in this soil. and
before growing the soil must be suitably
warmcd-that first the seed is started into
life by the action of the heat air and moist
ure in the soi-that it sends out little stem
one part of which descends into the ground:
this is called the radiclc the other part as
cends, seeking the light and air, the first
part of which is known to botansts as coty-
ledons-thcse enclose bud which soon
makes its appearance, containing the leaves
soon to follow this bud is called the pl,,n-
uto This is the case with some kinds 9TH
ers are somewhat differently constructed.
1t is also well TO know that the seed
contains the necessary dltunc1l, or food
to sustain the plant in the first stage of its
growth, till its roots take hold in the soil and
therefrom draw supply. These and many
other facts are better observed and learned
by our rural population than by the deni-
zens of Il populous city the former having
the advantage Of daily and constant obser-
Walton. ". II. WHITE.
South U'iudSor, Conn, 1866.