"There," said a gentleman to us the other day, pointing to a fine group of pine and other trees, " my brother is about to build himself a house; those trees were planted for him by my father upwards of twenty years ago." How fortunate this man to have such a father. Here he builds his house among those fine trees, and enters at once upon their enjoyment. He gains twenty-five years of time, and not only that, the plantation has a ten-fold value in its history and associations. It is a family monument. A beautiful example this for fathers. Such an inheritance has a moral as well as a material value.

We have another instance of a like character. A widow lady, who possesses a large and beautiful estate in Western New York, informed us recently that she was about to plant and improve a tract of ground for the future residence of her son, who is yet a child.

Is there any other way in which parents can better provide for the physical future of their children? - anything that can impress the minds of children with more enduring gratitude to the parent and teach them their duty to posterity ? We are happy to be able to record such instances. It shows that society is at least approaching a condition of permanency, without which it were vain, indeed, to expect people to project or execute any liberal plans of improvement for the future.

Taking a pecuniary view of the matter, what better legacy could a farmer, in one of our fine fruit growing districts, leave to his sons than an orchard of five or ten acres of apple trees or pear trees just coming into productiveness. Would it not be quite as well as purchasing for him a farm in the far west, scattering his family far away from the homestead and breaking up the ties that bind them to home and kindred? The migratory spirit that prevails so wide and deep among us is a deadly foe to that high culture which it is the wish of every man to see, and to all those feelings of attachment to home from which springs the brightest charms and greatest blessings of society. Think of these things you who are laboring so ardently for posterity. Turn your attention to planting. This is a kind of investment not easily affected by the ordinary ebb and flow of human affairs. Plant! - Plant for posterity I