THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



of the year" their large and rustic gentleness 

 mar the nuptial revels of summer's returned 

 aristocracy. Because, moreover, there is a far 

 stronger effect of life, home and cheer from 

 the broad-leaved evergreens which, in duly 

 limited numbers, assemble with and behind 

 these, and from the lither sorts of conifers that 

 spire out of the network and haze of living 

 things in winter sleep. The plantings at the 

 garden's and dwelling's front being properly, of 

 course, lower than those farther back, I see 

 among them, in this dream, the evergreen box 

 and several kinds of evergreen ferns. I see two 

 or three species of evergreen barberries, not to 

 speak of Thunberg's leafless one warm red with 

 its all-winter berries, the winter garden's rubric. 

 I see two varieties of euonymus; various low 

 junipers; two sorts of laurel; two of andromeda, 

 and the high-clambering evergreen ivy. Be- 

 ginning with these in front, infrequent there 

 but multiplying toward the place's rear, are 

 bush and tree forms of evergreen holly, native 

 rhododendrons, the many sorts of foreign cedars 

 and our native ones white and red, their sky- 



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