. Patriotic addresses in America and England, from 1850 to 1885, on slavery, the Civil War, and the development of civil liberty in the United States . Healways loved and sympathized with the life of the naturalworld from his earliest childhood, and much of his boy-hood and youth was spent in the meadows and along thebrooks and among the woods. The cultivation of fiowersand shrubs and of all manner of vegetables had been hisdelight in youth and his necessity when life-work his two years at Mount Pleasant Academy, whilepreparing for college, he had found a sympathetic instructorm a
. Patriotic addresses in America and England, from 1850 to 1885, on slavery, the Civil War, and the development of civil liberty in the United States . Healways loved and sympathized with the life of the naturalworld from his earliest childhood, and much of his boy-hood and youth was spent in the meadows and along thebrooks and among the woods. The cultivation of fiowersand shrubs and of all manner of vegetables had been hisdelight in youth and his necessity when life-work his two years at Mount Pleasant Academy, whilepreparing for college, he had found a sympathetic instructorm an old gardener, who taught him much, and he had neverbeen without a vital and practical interest in those mat-ters. In his preface to the first edition of Pleasant Talkabout Fruits, Flowers, and Farming, a collection of hisarticles from the Western Farmer and Gardener, whichhe edited while he was in Indianapolis (by way of restingfrom his pulpit labors), he says:— It may be of some service to the young as showing how valu-able the fragments of time may become, if mention is made ofthe way in which we became prepared to edit this journal. The. TEN YEARS OF MISSIONARY WORK. 51 continued taxation of daily preaching, extending through months,and once through eighteen consecutive months without the ex-ception of a single day, began to wear upon our nerves, andmade it necessary for us to seek some relaxation. Accordingly weused, after each week-nights preaching, to drive the sermon outof our heads by some alterative reading. In the State Library were Loudons works—his encyclopediasof Horticulture, of Agriculture, and of Architecture. We fellupon them, and, for years, almost monopolized them. In ourlittle one-story cottage, after the days work was done, we poredover these monuments of an almost incredible industrj^ and read,we suppose, not only every line, but much of it many times . In this way, through several years, we gradually accu-mulated materials and became familiar
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