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have something a little more pretentious and elaborate. We can begin 

 with an evergreen screen for the garbage can, and at least shut it out 

 from full view of our neighbor's dining room, or we may plant a screen 

 to shut out the view of our neighbor's cow lot or trash pile, that our 

 guests do not view it while seated at our table. 



A bed of evergreens can be equally as attractive as a bed of shrubs, 

 and afford us pleasure 365 days each year instead of five or six months 

 of this time. One may arrange them in formal designs or as irregular 

 border, using the taller growing varieties in the center or back ground, 

 and the lower growers in front, bordering with the nana and pigma 

 varieties, and filling in with the ever green vine Vinca minor and the 

 silvery white Santolina, with a Yucca now and then to assert its con- 

 trasting growth, and to protrude its bayonet-like leaves above the drift- 

 ing snow. 



Broad-leaved evergreens are not enough used and some of us for- 

 get that they really belong to the evergreen family, because we see them 

 so seldom, and we associate evergreens with pines, arborvitaes, firs and 

 spruces. Mahonias, hollies, laurels, ilex, box, yuccas, privet, some mag- 

 nolias and some ferns, when given protected situations where the sudden 

 thaw of a winter sun does not burn the south side of them, do well enough 

 to warrant their use. Some of them stand even the changes of our 

 climate without this precaution. 



There are many plants half evergreen, the leaves of which remain 

 green until late winter or early spring ; among these are a few vines and 

 herbaceous plants that retain the summer colors and fall tints to make 

 their presence appreciated. 



Bright colored fruit and bark, seed-pods and spikes, unique and 

 curious, all combine to make winter attractive to the lover of nature. 



I will close with a few kind remarks to those who object and criti- 

 cize the use of evergreens in the planting of home grounds and parks 

 "because they remind one of a cemetery." How ridiculous and far- 

 fetched is such an educated dislike for these beauties of the vegetable 

 kingdom. I wonder they do not object to bread made on a board since 

 coffins are made of the same material. Why not rule out marble and 

 granite in the construction of our homes and public buildings for the 

 same reason. 



There is not a tree or shrub, evergreen or deciduous, used in land- 

 scape work, that may not be found in our cemeteries ; in fact, the mod- 

 ern cemetery contains a greater variety of the rare and beautiful trees, 

 shrubs and plants, than are to be found in our city parks or in private 

 grotuids ; and all plant lovers have learned this and go there in prefer- 

 ence to the parks to learn of the plants suitable to that locality. 



