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ing in the summer if you cultivate thoroughly. Perhaps you 

 wish to move evergreens from four to six feet tall. In that 

 case, 3'ou must always dig around the tree, secure a ball of 

 earth with the roots, and bind or sow burlap snug around it, 

 then water it thoroughly. In this way you can move it. In 

 planting evergreens of any size always plant in a depression, 

 and not on a ridge. In planting large trees, have a good- 

 sized hole; put fine earth next to the roots to nourish them 

 the first year and water thoroughly. You will have to watch 

 trees set in the yard and water often the first year. Have 

 them in a depression which will hold a tub of water and fill 

 it often if dry. Once established, they will endure most any 

 kind of weather. ] 1 ij ^| 



THE PROTECTED AND UNPROTECTED HOME. 



What would 3'ou think of a man who A\'Ould not defend his 

 home, who would not keep out any baneful influence at any 

 cost? A man once came to me with tears in his eyes and amid 

 his sobs said, ''There is a man who comes to my house who is 

 supplanting me in my wife's affections and my home is broken 

 up" and then he broke down in a wail of despair, "What shall 

 I do?" "Do, why just give that fellow a half a mile ride on 

 the toe of your boot." "Oh, I can't do that," and so he allowed 

 his wife to get a divorce and marry a brute who soon killed 

 her with cruelty and his children were scattered and he left 

 desolate because he didn't defend his home. A man would 

 naturally protect his home from robbers and he would not 

 care to have it surounded by troops of noisy hoodlums, and 

 yet he will allow that tyrant of the north, Old Boreas, to 

 fairly bombard his home when he comes with the scourge of 

 the North Winds and all the imps and shrieking demons of 

 the stonn. He will allow him to assail his dwelling, year in 

 and year out, and make no resistance, whatever. Whenever 

 one of the Avomen steps out of doors, she is assaulted by 

 all the hoodlums of the air, pinched and pulled and driven 



