A PEW HINTS ABOUT EVERGREEN TREES. 



In our cold and bleak climate, where, for six months out 

 of twelve, frost and snow hold undisputed sway, varied only 

 by occasional storms of sleet or chilly rains, it is indispensa- 

 ble to the comfort and enjoyment of every rural or suburban 

 residence, as well as the protection of every fruit or flower 

 garden, that they should be well provided with plantations 

 of evergreen trees. Not only will they afford shelter and 

 warmth at the inclement season of the year, but will render 

 the heat of summer less oppressive and unequal. But beyond 

 these uses, which are in themselves sufficient to insure their 

 general introduction, they have a prospective value which is 

 too often overlooked. They not only improve the rural aspect 

 of the country, but they enhance the market value of all 

 landed property, and in an economical point of view, without 

 reference to ornamental purposes, deserve to be far more ex- 

 tensively planted than they have heretofore been. Those 

 who can see no use or beauty in fine evergreen trees, as 

 mere ornamental objects, must at least admit that they give 

 additional value to every situation, wherever they form even 

 a remote feature of the landscape. If their cultivation cannot 

 be extended so rapidly as we could wish, by appeals to the 

 taste of the possessors of lands, they may be induced to plant, 

 provided it can be shown that those who have them to dis- 

 pose of will find it to their advantage that they should be 

 judiciously covered with a vigorous growth of evergreen as 

 well as deciduous trees. 



But we have not space to enter into all the arguments 

 which might be adduced in favor of ornarrtental plantations, 

 either for picturesque effect, or for enhancing the value of 

 property. These we must leave till a more leisure opportu- 

 nity. The latter subject, however, is one of much impor- 

 tance, and one which we hope may more deeply engage at- 

 tention. Did the owners of extensive lands but know how 



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