Wisconsin Herald, And Grant County Advertiser

PLANTING TREES.—This is the season
for planting trees, for fruit or ornament;
and every one who owns a bit
of ground should seize this opportunity.
A few hours' work done now, will with
the aid of time and a little attention,
effect improvements in town or country
residence, which, when once procured,
would not be dispensed with for five
times their cost. Every farmer should
raise his own fruit, of all kinds, and of
the best quality. It is no more labor
nor expense to cultivate good fruit, than
that of an inferior quality; and for this
reason great care should be used in selecting
proper kinds for planting or
grafting. Where young trees of a
worthless character are growing in
proper places for fruit trees to stand, let
them be grafted immediately from the
best that can be procured; but old trees
of a similar character had better be cut
down and their places supplied with
others from the nursery. All ground
occupied with trees producing worthless
fruit, is a dead loss, and the sooner
it is disencumbered the better.

Every farmer should beautify and
adorn the grounds about his dwelling
with handsome shade trees and shrubbery.
Who that can appreciate the
blessings of civilization, is not delighted
with the appearance of a well improved
residence, and would not far prefer
it, for a habitation, to the naked
and exposed condition of many farm
houses we see through the country?
But this is not all: nothing contributes
more than improvements of this kind
to enhance the value of property, in
the estimation of those who generally
are able and willing to give high prices:
and hence a trifling expenditure for this
purpose will bring a better return, perhaps,
than the same amount of money
and labor bestowed upon a farm in any
other way. This fact should strike the
attention of every farmer who feels the
proper pride of his profession; and
while he should not relax his efforts
for the substantial improvement of his
land, give increased attention to that
in which appearance constitutes the
chief value.

Need we urge upon the citizens of
our own or other villages the importance
of improving their residences by
the cheap and easy mode of planting
shade trees shrubbery? Nothing sooner
attracts the attention of the stranger
of taste on entering a village or town.
in a sultry summer day, than well improved
grounds around or in front of
the dwellings. In too many instances,
from some cause or other, dwellings in
towns are put out upon the street so far
as to forbid the cultivation of any thing
in front; but where this is not the case,
a little attention will greatly add to
the value of the property, as well as to
the comfort of living. The appearance
of a village is generally taken by
strangers as some indication of the
character of its inhabitants: and men
of refined taste, and a disposition for
enterprise and improvement, generally
select a home in a community where a
congenial feeling prevails.

[Bucks County Intelligencer