The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-03
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fiowers-the sweet basil, with its delicate
white petals, the summer savory, thyme,
sweet marjoram, the caraway and dill.
which carry one back to 'meeting" and ia
school days, and the sweet fennel with its
plume like leaves,-how pretty they all
are
The varieties of dwarf tomatoes, the
martynia with its horned pods, the egg
plant, with its curious blossoms, the capsi,
cum family of such varied size and form,
are all attractive, and the castor oil bean.
so suggestive of tropical vegetation, the
gourd tribe, with its myriad and fantastic
shapes, if not positively useful, are we'll
worth cultvating for their beauty alone.
Now some of you have children with
artistic tastes. Let the garden be field
for the development and exercise of those
tastes. With suitable instruction, training
and encouragement, the making and caring
for garden would be an unafailing source
OF interest and amusement to both boys
and girls. Furnish them with the best
works on horticulture and Horticulture.
You have plenty of land. Enlarge your
gardens, and let your sons set out trees,
plant hedges, build rustic seats and arbors
and try their hand at rock work. For
your daughters, no more pure, healthful
and refining recreation can be found than
the cultivation of flowers. Money spent
for seeds, bulbs and plants is not thrown
away, if judicious selection is made.
1t is to be regretted that botany is not
more generally taught in our schools. If
the rudiments only are acquired, the knowl-
edge affords a lifelong pleasure. That
line of Pope,
"a little learning Is q dangerous thing
which fifty years ago was in all the reading
books, and has been on the lips of mankind
ever since, when instruction to the million
Gncluding females) was to be discouraged,
10 false, and should no longer have place
in English literature. A little knowledge
even, of botany, (of course, the more the
better,) gives zest to gardening, to horti-
culture, to Horticulture, to agriculture in
all its branches, to everything which has
for its object the development and perfec-
ton of vegetable life and even the super
fetal student in this science, as in geology
and mineralogy, in walk over our hills
and through our woods has his enjoyment
increased hundred fold.
You are ambitious to have good house,
convenient and well furnished within of
some architectural pretensons without.
1t is a laudabe ambition. Next YOU want
n fine barn; built on the most approved
plan, that your cattle, horses and sheep
may be healthy and comfortable, and enjoy
life. This is as praise-wOrthy as the other,
but to make your place truly attractive,
you need in addition to these, not only a
good but a handsome garden, not merely
useful appendage the sole object of which
is to minister to the appetite but something
TO please the eye, TO crafty that tasto for
the beautiful which should be cultivated
and encouraged, as one of the means of
keeping the heart pure by daily acquaint-
ance with the fairest, loveliest, sweetest OBJ
jects which God has bestowed upon the
earth.
l have spoken of the garden as a suitable
field for the display of artistic tastes. 1t is
more beautiful than the works of the sculp-
tor or the painter by as much as nature
excels art. The greatest masters can but
initiate the perfection of nature; but in
vegetable life the forms are Gods own, the
colors are laid by the pencil of the great
painter, dipped in celestial dyes, which in
the tiny flower beneath our feet, as well as
in "the bridge of colors seven," spanning
the broad Heavens, are unatainable by NOR
| tai skill ~
If have seemed to give too much prom.
inence to matters of fancy, and too little to
those of utility, let it be borne in mind that
the soundness and solidity of the other es-
says read on this occasion, will preponder-
ate, and this light article if utterly worth
less, will be crushed by their weight and
lost sight of. If however, it possesses any
value, 1t may rise to the surface again, and
accomplish sometime, the mission upon
which it was sent.