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must be a mass of junipers or arborvitaes or 

 pines or firs; then it has continuity and dignity 

 and repose. 



With no class of vegetation is this distinction 

 so aggressive, if I may put it that way, as it is 

 with evergreens, although it is always apparent 

 and decidedly in evidence to the discriminating 

 observer. A mass of shrubbery is better for 

 being made up of six or seven kinds instead of 

 fifteen or twenty; a group of deciduous trees 

 likewise must be limited in varieties if it is not 

 to look like a collection instead of part of a 

 landscape; and flowers lose in effect in inverse 

 ratio to the number of colors and kinds which a 

 single mass contains. But in none of these is 

 there such striking disharmony as in a group of 

 many kinds of evergreens, partly because the 

 former are not confined when growing in the 

 wild to groups containing only one variety, per- 

 haps, while evergreens almost invariably are; 

 largely because the individuality of evergreens 

 is so much more marked that two kinds in com- 

 bination never blend in the slightest degree, as 

 deciduous growth does. On the contrary, each 

 specimen stands apart, however close it may be 

 put to its neighbors, protesting and indignant 

 at the affront which such treatment imposes. 



While the small garden may be allowed two 



