SOME GREEN THINGS OF THE EARTH 



uated in the extreme northerly corner of the 

 beautiful hill country of northern New Jer- 

 sey and New York, directly on the boundary 

 line of the two states. The winter tempera- 

 ture rises and falls from forty degrees above 

 zero to ten, and often twenty degrees below, 

 and in summer, during July and August, 

 there is usually a long period of dry weather, 

 which make conditions that are especially 

 hard upon the finer evergreen family. 



The great hemlocks, the symmetrical 

 spruces, the solemn pines, which in a natural 

 state grow near the white birches so often 

 that one might say the pines are married to 

 the birches — ^indeed, all evergreens — ^inspire 

 me with a feeling almost akin to worship, 

 possibly a heathen trait which has survived 

 generations of civilization, so that it is a great 

 trial to me not to be able to grow the ever- 

 green family successfully. 



As a compensation, I was able to plan for 

 a friend a most lovely little garden which 

 she calls her " evergreen garden." It oecu- 



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