EVERGREEN TREES. 151 
gloomy, but sufficient to make it look cheerful and pleasant 
The birds will remain with you later in autumn, and grect 
you earlier in spring, if you offer them a welcome and a 
few Evergreen trees for shelter, There is a great variety 
of form and shades of color among these trees, and they 
may be so intermingled that there will be no stiffress or 
monotony of appearance, but graceful outlines may be 
given to the most rugged and naturally ill-looking situation. 
Trees give a solid, substantial appearance to a place, 
which no building, however pretentious, can or ever will 
produce. If a man goes into the country to buy a farm, 
he will seldom call where he sees beautiful trees surround 
ing the house and out-buildings, for he knows instinct 
ively that such places are not for sale, for the owner gen- 
erally thinks more of his home than money ; but it is the 
bleak, uninviting farms that are usually for sale. There 
is no excuse at the present day for not having Evergreen 
trees and shrubs planted about every home in the country, 
no matter where it may be located or at what distance 
from Evergreen forests or from nurseries where such 
plants are grown for sale. Evergreen seeds can be had 
very cheaply, and our Government has wisely enacted 
postal laws that offer to every person an opportunity 
of transporting seeds to every part of the @ountry for a 
mere nominal price. This arrangement has already been 
of immense value to the community, and we shall not be 
surprised if in its effects it proves of more real benefit to 
the country than the results of all the labors of the Agri- 
cultural Bureau of the Department of the Interior—unless 
that is conducted differently than it has been in years past 
