EVERGREENS. 55 



THE iNJiSSlON OF EVEKGIIEENS. 



Go into a northern foreist in the stillness of the winter and 

 the scene has its charms. The branches ai'e laden with snow, 

 and you have the sunlight glinting on the white and green, 

 and then you are impressed with a sense of security and com- 

 fort. The mercury runs about three degrees higher than out 

 in the open. You have a feeling that you are being sheltered 

 and protected. This same security and comfort can, in a 

 measure, be transferred to the prairie home. It can easily be 

 done and with very little expense. People have two erroneous 

 ideas. One is evergreens are so hard to handle and another 

 is that they are of such slow gTowth they will do nothing 

 for you in a lifetime. 



If handled right, you can transplant them as easily as you 

 can elm or cottonwood, and on account of their rapid growth 

 they are the terror of the nurserymen. Out in our Held are 

 Ponderosa or Bull Pines, only three years old and once trans- 

 planted that are twelve to eighteen inches tall. They are 

 now well established and ready to make from one to two 

 feet growth each jeav. Scotch and Austrian Pines are about 

 the same, so v\dth Douglas Spruce, Avhile Jack Pines are the 

 thriftiest of all. 



SOME THINGS TO REMEMBER. 



In planting evergreens, you must get those that naturally 

 grow nearest to you. The Ponderosa Pine is peculiarly 

 adapted to all that region l^ing between the Missouri river 

 and the Eocky mountains. For the hot plains of Kansas, 

 Oklahoma, and Nebraska, they should be grown from seed 

 secured from the foothills of Colorado. For Minnesota, the 

 Dakotas, and Manitoba seed should be obtained from the high- 

 est altitudes of the Eackies or the northern and highest ranges 

 of the Black Hills or Wyoming. The Contorta and Aristarta 

 Pines, the Englemanii Spruce, and Pungens gi'ow at high 

 elevations and Avould therefore succeed well in the North, 



