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spreading habit and the leaves are grouped in a quaint, 

 odd fashion. In time it grows to considerable size, 

 but it always retains its ' graceful, quaint habit, and 

 needs but little pruning. There are no shrubs perhaps 

 that are so generally useful on the lawn as these un- 

 obtrusive privets. 



Coming to the winter time our thoughts naturally 

 turn to the evergreens. There are white-stemmed 

 birches, red-stemmed dogwoods, yellow- and red- 

 stemmed jaofltexg, and the berries that linger on them 

 from fall, but the evergreens after all make the winter 

 landscape and create by far the major part of its 

 interest. 



The Abies or firs are a numerous family, stately and 

 of great size and beauty. There are firs and spruces 

 in Europe one hundred and twenty feet high. The 

 hemlock, Picea canadensis , or more properly Tsuga 

 canadensis, is a beautiful, graceful evergreen that does 

 not grow so rapidly as some others, but is easily trans- 

 planted and generally hardy, although it is apt to 

 surfer from severe cold and winds in early spring, during 

 the earlier years of its growth. There is a beautiful 

 form of it called Tsuga carolinianum because it was 

 found in the mountains of North Carolina. It is very 

 symmetrical and has a drooping grace at the end of its 

 branches and deep shadows in the inner spaces of its 

 foliage in the case of a somewhat mature tree that is 

 very lovely. 



The white fir (Abies concolor) is, perhaps, after the 

 hemlock, the finest of the firs. Its young growth is of 



