American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . r is a prominent public benefactor. If he had done nothing else butto introduce the Beurre dAnjou pear and great numbers of other new fruits and flowers,and to multiply varieties by hybridisation, he would have laid the community under greatobligations to him; but his range of activity has been far wider. A large part of thebeauty, the cultured taste, and the luxuriance in landscape gardening, which cluster aroundand adorn the thousands of small homes about Boston, through a con
American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . r is a prominent public benefactor. If he had done nothing else butto introduce the Beurre dAnjou pear and great numbers of other new fruits and flowers,and to multiply varieties by hybridisation, he would have laid the community under greatobligations to him; but his range of activity has been far wider. A large part of thebeauty, the cultured taste, and the luxuriance in landscape gardening, which cluster aroundand adorn the thousands of small homes about Boston, through a constantly wideningradius, is due directly or indirectly, to his influence and inspiration. And now, at the ageof eighty-four, from the calm retreat of his happy home, he can look back on a long hfewell spent, and out upon a region smihng with loveliness, with a consciousness that he issurrounded by a host of admiring and devoted friends, who can realize and appreciatethe results of his labors, and the powerful impetus which his personal presence gave to thespirit of improvement, thirty, forty, fifty years ago. FARM BUILDINGS. A S the degree of civilization attained by a people can be very accurately determined byI\ the manner in which tliey till the soil, and the implements used for that purpose, soin like manner can the standard of civilization be measured by the kind of houses theyconstruct for themselves and their domestic animals. Tlie lowest types of- the humanfamily live in holes dug in the ground, burrowing like some kinds of animals, while savagesof a little higher order than these construct rude huts, that are a slight improvement uponthe former habitations. As intelligence and civilization increase, the style of architectureimproves in a proportionate degree, until the habitations of the most intelligent nations of theearth are characterized by thrift, refinement, and taste; wealth, intelligence, and culturebeing as unmistakably evidenced by tlie style of architectu
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