260 EVERGREENS. 



These hardy and beautiful evergreens are strik- 

 ing illustrations of "the eternal fitness of things." 



For a grove of evergreen trees they may be from 

 i to i y 2 feet high without the necessity of shad- 

 ing, provided they have been transplanted as 

 described. Better always send to the nursery where 

 you know they are grown, than to give orders to 

 unknown parties. This may sometimes do just as 

 well but one time with another it will lead to dis- 

 appointment. If a smaller tree of the ordinary 

 kinds is to be used for the grove it will be safer to 

 shade them in some artificial manner. It is not 

 good to plant them as some do in an improvised 

 nursery, along the north side of a row of willows, 

 as they will reach out their roots and rob our plants. 

 It is well, however, in such a case to plant them in 

 nursery rows, running north and south and quite 

 closely in the row with a view of protecting them 

 partially by the shade of each other. Trees of the 

 size last described can be planted in such a row 

 about i foot apart. In massing them in this way 

 they are more easily shaded, and after two years' 

 cultivation can be planted out where they are to 

 remain. In this way we shall get a full stand in 

 the grove. 



It will not be necessary to give minute instruc- 

 tions for handling them when first coming into the 

 hands of the planter, he will keep in mind at all 

 times that the roots must not be dried for a single 

 half minute, it is not necessary, and any one can 

 find a way to avoid it. 



