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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 260, 1 November 1872, Page 1

Farmers' Homes. — A house on a hill, with no trees around it, looks cheerless and unhomelike. Have grounds around the dwelling. Tear away the fences, they cost money and are useless— l mean the fences shutting the house up as if there was danger of its running away. Let there be not lekkthan an acre of door-yard, ten will he better. Make a rich lawn of this and cut the grass. Ifc can be no waste, but it will be a thing of beauty, and " a thing of beauty is a joy for ever. " There need not beany loss tot he tasteful; nature and beauty are synonyms; good taste and economy can therefore be made handmaids to each other. Set out fruit, trees in this enclosure, and dig around them with a spade each year.and topdress the whole; and the treeß will grow finely, and tlie grass will grow luxuriantly, arid the hou.se will grow beautiful, -and the children will grow contented, the fathers and mothers as they gtpw oid^ wili/gro^.happyi the neighbors will; grow i'and : ;tiie;/y<^^ :; grpw:U£,:t^ ('th^r^Mo^nospiac^^