Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-05

There is such thing in rural economy as
laying out embelishing and arranging grounds
30 as to promote symmetry, order and beauty,
at the same time that utility is secured. A
cotemporary says: 1T is beginning now to be
pretty generally understood, that farmer
may have home which shall be extremely at
tracuve. The means are within the reach of
the humblest, If he only has the taste"
The house should be placed back from the
highway because this IS more secure from
dust and is safer from the unscrupulous gaze
of the staring traveller. The ward in front
should he occupied by ornamental trees and
shruDbery, rather than with fruit trees. Where
the latter are set out, the ground must be
occasionally MANFRED, and ploughed and cult
waited through one or more seasons therefore
a good greensWard cannot be maintained under
them, and the falling of unripe fruit and leaves
must keep the surface more or less polluted
and unsightly, Fruit trees and shrubbery,
indeed every farmer should have: but a place
for these exclusively should be appropriated,
as in the orchard and garden. But the front
yard, to be handsome, and to afford a good
shade, should be occupied only by ornamental
trees, such as sugar maple, elm. linden. horse
chestnut, &c, under which the grass may grow.
They too should be so set out and intermixed,
as to produce beauty by contrast, and not so
as TO appear mOnOtOnous.
The trees on the south side of q house should
never be cyergreens, but always deciduous-
trees which, when the scorching DAYS of
summer are past shed their foliage and let the
rays Of the sun III to warm and elighten the
domestic retreats The evergreens should
occupy positions on the north in order to
shelter the premises against the effects of cold
winds. They are excellent for this purpose.
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thicket; animals seek shelter under the boughs
Of such evergreen shrubs and trees, and there
suffer but little from the effects of cold weather.
| should desire no better shelter or a warmer
wall for the north side Of my garden than a
close, wcil-trmmed hedge OF arbOr vitae.
Delicate and tender plants will flourish wonder
fully under such genial protector.
1t Is wise arrangement, early made by
some farmers Of my acquaintance, who took
pains. years ago, to set out a goodly number
Of cedar, fir or spruce trees on the north side
Of their buildings, which break off the cold
winds and lmpart a mitgated temper to the
atmosphere, that makes the climate in winter
several degrees more southern than their
neighbours premises on yonder hill who has
not tree near his buildings to protect them
from the piGless blast. / was struck with
this, the other day, when passing on the high
way over rising grounds, l noticed Z neat white
cottage, and Outbuildings almost as neat,
reposing costly under Il close row of Interlaced
spruce trees, that environ the buildings on the
north and west. 1t looked as if nothing need
freeze there; and the sheep, and COWS, and
colts and oxen in the barn yard, and the hens
and turkeys that were fed from the back doors,
seemed to bear witness that such was the fact.
Such row Of beautiful spruces, contrasting
with the white snow-felds around them, are
themselves ornamental, as well as means of
great saving in irewood within doors.