Summer Meeting. 89 



We have no fear for those who read ; it is only for those who do 

 not that we may still look for such barbarous methods, for our daily 

 papers and our magazines are full of good articles telling when and 

 how to prune ; volume after volume has been published on plant cul- 

 ture and care. These, with lectures and lantern slides, we hope will 

 eventually educate all. 



When it comes to real features, real lasting features in a landscape, 

 we must turn to the evergreens, for winter and summer they remain 

 the same, changing only in brightness as the seasons come and go. 



As for color we now have varieties enough to satisfy the most 

 fastidious, from black-green to yellow-green; blue-green to silvery 

 bronze, and brown-greens, purple tinted and cream, all these in varying 

 forms from the upright, fastigatc, pyramidal, spreading, round-headed 

 oval, to drooping, weeping, angular, low, flat, creeping and climbing 

 forms, what more could we ask? W^ith them we can effect the sub- 

 lime to the ridiculous, th- :.'irele?s to the precise in our planting. 



The uses of evergreens are many. In the landscape their value 

 ranges from hedges or fences, to enclose grounds, to pot-plants for 

 windows, or porch decorations. Planted as screens they hide objec- 

 tionable features in the landscape ; for windbreaks they protect our homes, 

 our orchards or our gardens. As back grounds for other planting they 

 give contrasts and help intensify the bright-colored fruit and bark of 

 many deciduous trees and shrubs in winter; for ground covers where 

 grass refuses to grow ; and for individual specimens on the lawn. 



Aside from their value in the landscape, their economic value in 

 the trades in furnishing lumber, oils and varnishes, make them of great 

 value to the home builder. I am glad to say that there are few places 

 left where they furnish means for an idle man to kill time shearing 

 them into nonsensical forms. 



To give you a list of those you should use in planting your home 

 ground is not necessary, since catalogues describing them can be had 

 for the asking. No yard is too small, no, not even the house without 

 a yard, "the city flat," to be without some evergreens. In our city 

 flats we hang our yard out of a window. During the summer we can 

 plant annuals and vines : in the fall we can replace them with a few 

 select dwarf or young evergreens ; fill in between with Santolina and 

 Vinca minor, and occasionally stick in a fresh branch of holly, lucothia, 

 California pepper or huckleberry, and you have a touch of green outside 

 the window that will help to reduce the outside temperature about to 

 per cent in appearance. 



In the yard a little larger than that hung out of the window we may 



