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CHAPTER VII. 



EVERGREEN SHRUBS. 



A MORE common, free, and abundant use of evergreen shrubs 

 should be adopted, because of the cheerful, Bright, verdure-like 

 appearance produced in the landscape when their dark and 

 light green foliage and blue or scarlet berries cover with har- 

 monious life-like beauty what otherwise in the dreary winter 

 scenes would be barren and unsightly. Their use among 

 deciduous shrubs can be more general than that of evergreen 

 trees, from the fact that they only rise a few feet, and therefore, 

 unlike trees, can not exhibit shade and gloom to the scene. 

 Many a place is made beautiful in summer from the foliage of 

 shrubs and the bloom of flowers, that in winter presents a dreary 

 barren aspect, which is easily changed and draped with foliage 

 and beauty by the simple planting of evergreen shrubs. Were 

 we to write an entire book in advocating their general use, it 

 would not half express our feelings, or perhaps any more 

 advance their frequent planting than our present few words. 

 To the planter who seeks to create constant beauty, or who 

 desires easy gradations and harmonious combinations in land- 

 scape ; to him who has but small grounds in the suburbs of a 

 city; to those who desire to clothe the last resting-place of 

 earthly friends with emblems of eternity and lasting beauty, let 

 me urge upon their attention the claims found in, and beauty 

 derived from, the use of shrub evergreens. 



Among the most hardy, and adapted to all sections and 

 positions, the* JUNIPER in its varieties is, perhaps, most worthy 

 of frequent and universal planting. There is, as we have 



