, men come to build stately sooner
than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do
hold it in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for
all the months in the year; in which severally things of beauty may be
there in season.'

Following Lord Bacon's advice, let there be such a plan and arrangement
of it, that it shall always be attractive, and yield a continual round
of beauty through the year. Thus planted, the garden 'will inspire the
purest and most refined pleasures, and cannot fail to promote every good
affection.'

With all the advantages which the discoveries of natural science offer
to the farmer of this century, it will little avail his successors
unless he strives to educate his children. It is a very mistaken and
lamentable notion--now, alas! too prevalent--that a liberal education is
necessary alone to those who intend to enter upon a professional life.
May the time be not far distant when farming may become a profession
which takes its rank with the rest, if it does not lead them, in the
public opinion. It was first supposed, very singularly, that the clergy
ought only to be favored with an education in science and the classics;
afterward the legal profession arose to sufficient dignity for it; and
finally the physician, the guardian of our health, the student and
philosopher of our bodies, arose to his noble position in the affairs of
this life; while the agriculturist, the supporter of all we have or wish
for here, the basis of our very civilization, is pushed aside or
forgotten, and the demand upon him for the best culture of the earth
altogether neglected. We have to congratulate ourselves that our
Government has left it with each State by itself, whether, by the
non-acceptance of its gift of public land as foundations for
agricultural colleges, they will longer forego the opportunity of giving
our young farmers a thorough scientific agricultural education. Until
such a system of study can be arranged, let the farmers themselves
commence the work of self-education. Agricultural societies and farmers'
clubs, in which are gathered together the best farmers of the States,
offer the best opportunity for intercommunication, thorough discussion
and observation, and dissemination of all new discoveries, facts, or
theories which may be made beneficial to all. These are the only means
by which farmers can compare opinions and found sound judgments for
their future lab