THE KINDLY FRUITS OF THE EARTH. [To THE EDITOR Or
THE' "SPECTATOR.")
wonder if you could find a little space in your paper for the following. It is an appeal to the women and children of our own fair land to help to make beautiful some small part of that other fair land, France, which has.been so desolated, to help to make some corner of that wilderness to blossom forth again with fruit-trees sent from our own country, whose orchards as yet have had no evil thing happen to them, and so at every spring give Nature's own beautiful message of life and hope. The cry of the helpless trees has been almost as the cry of the children. In every village and growing place why should there not be some fruiting saplings chosen and tended against the day when all is ready? Does it seem an extravagant idea that it might be beautiful for women to plant the trees of Life when the shells of Death are silent, we hope, maybe, for ever? If the idea is at all approved of, I see simple ways of carrying it out.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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