The woods and by-ways of New England . ew country must be awakened chiefly by the objectsof nature; for art is disagreeably vapid and ostentatiouswhere the wealthy inhabitants are chiefly ambitious tosurpass each other in the parade of their resources. Ifthe wild and rude character of the landscape were de-stroyed, if the spontaneous woods were despoiled, andnothing remained but a general baldness, nature wouldafford but little relief from the glare and insipidity ofornamental art. Yet I cannot feel that the venerablebuildings of an old country full of antiquities would makeamends for the abse
The woods and by-ways of New England . ew country must be awakened chiefly by the objectsof nature; for art is disagreeably vapid and ostentatiouswhere the wealthy inhabitants are chiefly ambitious tosurpass each other in the parade of their resources. Ifthe wild and rude character of the landscape were de-stroyed, if the spontaneous woods were despoiled, andnothing remained but a general baldness, nature wouldafford but little relief from the glare and insipidity ofornamental art. Yet I cannot feel that the venerablebuildings of an old country full of antiquities would makeamends for the absence of the wild and spontaneous scenesof nature. Not many districts on the old continent canbe so attractive as New England, which more than anyother land displays that charming intermixture of thewildness of nature and the beauties of civilized art whichis apparent in all the interior. And these features it willalways retain, so long as the man who tills the soil isthe owner of it, and every laboring farmer is an indepen-dent THE HICKOKY. The Hickory, including several < species, is very gen-erally distributed over this continent, but is found in noother part of the world. It is distinguished from thewalnut by its foliage and general habit of growth, by thesmaller number of leaflets on the leaf-stem, and by theirdarker color and firmer texture. The aments of theHickory are in threes, and the outer shell of the fruitopens at four angles when it is ripe; the aments of thewalnut are single, and the outer shell of the nut is undi-vided. The two trees differ also in their general appear-ance. The Hickory rises to a greater proportional height,with less length and spread of the branches, the lowerones being higher from the root of the tree and smallerthan those of the walnut. Many of the trees are flattenedat the top, and take a cylindrical form, when they ap-proach to any regularity; but their outlines are morefrequently irregular, displaying frequent gaps, and pre-sent
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