All others the sower reaps and garners into his own personal enjoyment; but this yields its best harvest to those who come after him.

This is a seeding for posterity.

From this well of Baca shall they draw the cooling luxury of the gift when the hands that made it shall have gone to dust.
And this is a good place and time to think of home--of what we begin to hear called by her younger children, _Old_ New England.

Trees with us have passed through the two periods specified by Solomon--"a time to plant and a time to pluck up." The last came first and lasted for a century.

Trees were the natural enemies to the first settlers, and ranked in their estimation with the wild Indians, wolves and bears.