| Show FARMERS AM GARDENERS the farm house garden the excellent article articie wih wilh the above ahova title 2 printed in our last being no 10 of mr E sayers series on horticulture we opine our readers whether of city or country have perused wih more than ordinary satisfaction it was well calculated to recall the memory of other days the scenes and circumstances of earlier years when we were yet associated with the friends of our youth and fondly cherished and counseled by tile tiie folks at home though remembrance sleeps sometimes and through the influence fluence lil iti of innumerable and increasing cares pressing at times with an almost overwhelming wh elming weight upon the mind mirld now in full maturity matul matui ity more capable of sustaining them the scenes and days of youth perchance seem almost obliterated from the mind yet when portrayed in some bi illint description reclaiming their former place in the vast receptacle of memory they assume more than their wonted loveliness each object is endowed with a charm that it never possessed before the old homestead where youths bright dreamy hours houra were passed is invested with attracts attractions ris new and entrancing ent entrancing g each nook and corner the hall the parlor the le bedroom bed room the closet are each re before us and furnish many pleasing occurrences that awake v within ith us the most joyous emotions the chaste language of lyos LYON at such a moment when the heart overflowing 7 with the profusion of home memories is ado full for utterance comes to our oar relief the beauteous landscape and the lawn the honeysuckle winding round the door the double leafed rosebush rose buh bush tush at early dawn dawny tipped with the dewdrops which they blushing bore and ivy green that round rha iha hawthorn hoar clasper cia Cla perl peri like an infant to its ru others mothers breast are scenes reflective of the days of yore sweet happy dreams creams reams of guileless guile lees lets boyhood blest ere poisonous poi pol sonol weeds weeda of care had bad round my pret pre W we do not wish to chase away the memory of those thiney which have endeared to us the homes of our childhood perhaps no people upon the face of the earth have more willingly left their j homes at butys call than the later latler day saints for the most part they have quitted tile the happy homes of their youth and the land where their fathers slept and where every earthly comfort abounded to become inhabitants of the wildest regions of the rocky mountains where nought of vegetation existed sae saie by the most incessant toil and where luxuries and even the common comforts of life were unk unknown noen till carried and tod eod sod there at almost unheard of prices by the merchants of the east I 1 here then they have come and reared their habitations forgetting or casting aside the false traditions trad iiona of their fathers discarding the wor worship of a god without body parts or passions passion sl the god their fathers covered in darkness wor shipped they have embarked upon a new sphere daring to follow the path marked out by an holy prophet ordained and sent forth in this dispensation pensa tion to gather israel and bring to pass the restitution of all things spoken of by all the holy prophets since fince the world began have opened their eyes to behold th the light eight of truth to edge ed 11 and adore the only living and true god to be dictated by the voice of divine revelation the star of eternity the only atar etar by which the bark of man may lately safely navigate the sea of life and gala the coast of bliss securely while it is ii sought to dispel the memory of every false notion inherited from our fathers can we or should we forget the mother who bore us ot or the father by whom we were begotten 7 no neither can we ever entirely foget the place where we were born botn the roof under which we were ere ete cradled and from whence we first sall sais callied sled lied butlo out to join in the sports of childhood nor the hours of sunshine and of shade that oer the gardens girdens gar gir dens dena varied beauties pread spread A witching charm all these are retained while the former are left to pasa pass unwept into everlasting oblivion bat but now far removed from these scenes and entering upon the arena of lite life ourselves have we not some ideal of a home like that when young we called our own our fathers housti house or some neighboring cot or mansion mans laul whose romantic site bite and enchanting grounds we would fain remodel and improve or imitate in f full tuil ull uli or diminished size alze aize alze plant upon our own free soil and call our own our childrens homel home will not they like us look back in future years to the old homestead with feelings somewhat som bom akin to those hose that now animate alimate our bosoms are not those finer sensibilities that frequently inspire their parent when their early years abo also planted within our children ayes ay and even more of them than their heir parents can boast the first fruits of the regeneration of the last days are springing up around ils its give them room to grow to expand strew thickly in their pathway the elements of life of beauty of excellence and glory withhold nothing that will tend to develop the germ of intelligence and immortality glowing within them and beagin beaming from their eyes lighten up their way with the smiles of encouragement cheer bem them hem always with words of truth and kindness aid them by your counsels win them by your love gather them around you and instruct ins fruct and point them to the he eternal fountain of light that the be light which la Is in them may burst into a livid flame consume every ray of darkness and bring them into the fullness of light even the presence ot of the father where aher a shall all these exalting ex altino influences and impressions be imparted 7 in the desert ye yee but it should be made to blossom as the rose in the rude log cabin cesi but by the skill of native art it should be rendered comely if not beautiful and the grounds by the hands of industry adorned with the choice products of nature tastefully arranged and symmetrically laid olt off that these young immortals may maybe be led to tore lore reflect learn the intuitive lessons of wisdom and look from nature up to natures god aa as a being worthy of adoration from all ills his creatures aa the source of every good that they may have unwavering confidence lu in him rhe hie naturalist cannot be an atheist the father of the great washington demonstrated to his son george that there vas was a designer of all things by simply sowing seed in the form of his briten name in the fertile soil the seed armin biting abing and springing forth tue true as the steadfast polestar ao lestar to the planting the youth was forever rescued escuad from the darkness which attributes to chance han cetha the wonder wonderful f ul and admirable phenomena of nature teach the little ones to prize the flowers for their beauty the plants and grains for their utility in contributing to the comfort and sustenance of man make them practical botanists let them not grow up to maturity without knowing the difference differ erce ce between a peach tree and a 11 I 1 cucumber vine if you do 60 not know your yourselves es solicit some one competent to inform them as soon as they may understand how to distinguish 7 the male and female of plants as readily as the masculine and feminine of animals vegetation is the science by which all animal existence is perpetuated it should therefore be the first introduced to the child no science Is is more abstruse while none is M more ore capable of being more thoroughly ehly simplified the prattling babe is delighted with the fragrant flower amused with the green leaves of the tree and loves the precious fruit than which next to its mothers milk no food is more wholesome for it when rightly matured trees are emblematical of children whey wherever there are children there also should he be the fruit bedding beading and ornamental trees Where there are none of these heavenly plant plants there may the land remain desolate and forsaken but yei yet e who are fathers and mothers mol herb hers while to your carcare care caro are in trusted germs of life light and immortality beautify the earth around you will wilh natures handiwork aided by your own skill and industry beautify your inheritances ilive have and ard and chaste pictures and works of art if you can in your halls balls and drawing I 1 rooms and in your cottages and cabins but if these are omitted let nothing prevent you from setting out trees around your dwellings and in your yards non nor would we stop the there re when you ou have planted an orchard and trees for shade and ornament turn your attention to the walks the rural retreats the bed beds of fruits and plants and the smaller clusters of choice fruits the grape the pear the table tabla apples the plums the currants the tha raspberry etc when these are tastefully and romantically arranged having previously set apart spots to be devoted to dowers flowers and shrubs obtain the finest varieties you can and placa place them where you ened all th thi s wib wi 1 l require time and labor but now is the tha time to commence the work da do not postpone it further fur ther make a beginning and when it becomes apparent that hat your labors aro ara blest you w will III ili bo be encouraged to prosecute the tha work to its completion now if it may be asked who are ara these reflections designed for for no other person than yourself ft reader why I 1 am a farmer and have no time lime for gardening and cultivating flowers how do you know air ir that you could not find ample time for the cultivation of a garden carden besiie beside attending to your farm labois nave have ayd aye you ever tried to have a garden I 1 10 0 no it would be useless beus flers fleas would you not like ilka to litaea garden and ably cultivated grounds to adorn your farm house it would indeed in leed feed be desirable and I 1 could wish to have a garden such as many have hava who live in the city but sir are you not aware that you as a systematic farmer have greater facilities for tor or gardening that those living in the tha city can possibly have 1 I am amnot not but if it you will listen a moment the fact will be quite apparent first you are a cultivator of the soil soh gardening in is cultivating the soil second you have or may have all the manure necessary to enrich the soil to its greatest crea erea test capacity of bearing judicious is an important item in ILI gardening third yoh you have a plow a spade a rake a hoe and a line or if not it is 13 easy to obtain one these when dili diligently antly used will prepare your ground for the seed alieh when put in and carefully attended will constitute the farmhouse garden which we consider as profitable and as indispensable to the comfort of the farmer as the citizens garden is profitable and indispensable to him what farmer will not now go forth and prepare to have a garden another season also set out fruit trees and ornament the grounds immediately around your cottage instead of allowing cattle pigs sheep and poultry free access to your very doors we are a farming community read horticultural series no lothe 10 the farm house garden again bailin ponder it over and it if you are not yet resolved to try to have a garden and lo 10 beautify your inheritances and make them like the he garden of or the lord why we shall be obliged tc write to you again the growth of tree treba s me present seison has been in many instances extraordinary small shoots that were thought dwarfish and of little value last spring have developed themselves into thrifty well weli proportioned and attractive trees these facts are mot most fully demonstrated in the nursery of mr L S Hemen hemenway ways in the tho ward whose grounds we walked over a few days since it was truly a gratifying sight to behold the vast forest of choice budded apple peach pear plum apricot and other species of fruit tree trees among which he informs us are some of the tiie rarest varieties known the apple trees of this nursery are unquestionably as fine fino and healthy looking as can be found in the world and although grown in the tho loam of bottom land when transplanted into the dry and gravelly soil of the bench lands if reasonably cared for and attended to thrive exceedingly well the apricot is a fruit which seems peculiarly adapted to tah mountainous region we think it ono olaof of the best beat of fruits combining in some degree the qualities of the apple and the peach and ripens ri penn early in a the season sellon f forming a connecting link between the very early berry varieties of tile the garden and the plums which precede the peaches and the tha apples of the orchard every garden should have a liberal space devoted to lii iii it culture nature has provided in its varied productions an uninterrupted succession of fruits and vegetables throughout thu the season and by tile tho all bli of the simple art of preserving plainly set forth in la the news jn eua no 25 those delc ious ions fruits may grace our boards the year ear round hemenway has currants 3 et in bearing of good flavor and and expects to have till frost comes can we not all hae haite bae them by a litle care in obtaining diffor different erit kinds it remains therefore at the option of th the a lords of the tile soll sell with their frugal housewives to wisely appropriate to 0 o beiro their heiroku heiro own wu comfort these ample provisions of nature tile the apricot 13 as yet generally geLe ger rally raily grown here on peach stocks though there are aie a few in three or four of our private gardens growing from front their own roots from en english IM seed feed until we can have all our apricot trees on their own stocks stock it will be advantageous to largely larely inoculate the ap apricot ir acot into the peach which affords tile ha best support to that rapid growing variety behave we have some very gine line fine apricots on peach stocks but so fares we have haye obe observed Tved the largest and finest flavored are those grown upon their own stocks massre jacob gates geo D watt walt and phineas H young who have ma the apricot grown from english seed have thil tah season carefully preserved the apricot stones to at city bountiful more f familiarity amilla familia rily sessions settlement last week we noticed that some improvements had been made there during 7 the past few years in the department of fru fruit at culture as also in other respects though t on the whole we must confess that the general aspect was not so agreeable as we had bad anticipated from our knowledge of the people and of the fine district of country they bocc occupy apy and that too in so close proximity to this thia city we had expected to see at least a nucleus formed on every mans roans premises prem isea for an oi orchard we had hoped to find more care bestowed on the garden and grounds surrounding the farmhouse farm house and citizens dwelling we found some fine large buildings there but when we looked for the shady arbor the vine and its delicious bunches of grapes approaching to maturity the apricot the plum the luscious looking greening 7 or spitzenberg apa ap pie the delightful grove of sidewalk shade trees we were more than once disappointed on the farm of a friend in that settlement we saw as fine corn sugar cane squashes melons ac as the territory can produce some of the fourteen rowed missouri sour corn was rather heavier than usual of 0 the white flint we noticed many ears upwards of a foot in length we may say according 0 to td appearances that this was the avera average a e tho 1 one of the family stated that an ear had been pulled that was a foot and a half long loni lon ion 0 I but even here there was scarcely a tree to relieve the vacant |
