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CONDENSED DESCRIPTIONS OF TREES AND SHRUBS. 



We commence this list with the Evergreen trees and shrubs 



or creepers. The trees are valuable :is screens from cohl winds, 

 hedges, and as features of beauty and <>f back-grounds in the 

 creation of beautiful home grounds, and especially do they give 



life ideal in the winter. t\ tall symmetrical evergreen in winter. 

 laden with frozen snow, in the earl\' rays of the morning sun OT 

 the soft, silvery light of the moon, can never be seen without 

 feeling that all of beauty comes from the good God's ereation, 

 not man's artifice. Many places, however, are rendered gloomy 

 ami dark from their too free use in the foreground and Dear to 

 the house. Many have planted beautiful Norway spruces of 

 three feet high within eight feet of their front windows, or I 

 feet of their walks or roadways, forgetting that in half* do/en to 

 a dozen of years they will be from twenty to thirty feet high, 

 and as many of breadth of limb base. Tin.- same silly thing has 

 been done on lots in a cemetery of 12 by 20 feet 



In evergreens there is a great deal of beauty, especially in 

 winter, but as a class for effective scenery, creative of varied 

 beauty in months when deciduous are in bud. bloom and 



foliage. They have not the qualities of a change in char 

 from month to month of the deciduous trees and Bhruba '. 

 can be grouped beautifully with the Mountain Ash. Euonymus 

 or Strawberry tree, which bear dusters of red fruit in late 

 autumn and winter. 



In removing and transplanting evergreens the first statement 



that they should have ball- of earth attached, the next WSJ 



that thev eould only be moved at certain seasons of the 



but those who practically and theoretically understand the 

 green tree or plant, can move them at anytime when the ground 



