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consumptives! There Is no such sanitarium on earth as that 

 the Great Physician has devised, If mien will only carry out his 

 plans. "What a charming place for tired mothers; even the 

 childless new woman could find here a sweet rest after her 

 struggles to reach fame Instead of home. 



Prof. Green's grove, I think, Is fifteen years old. What 

 will It be in twenty-flve years? These columns will be taller 

 and the green roof will he raised higher and a sense of 

 grandeur will grow on you as you w,alk through It. Here are 

 conditions every farmer can hav^ at a little cost. But too 

 often he wants the cattle and hog pens near the door. The 

 barn yard smells are svfeeter than the odors of the pines. He 

 prefers the broad prairie to the charming forest. He lets th'e 

 blizzard rage and the storms howl, and the northwind sting 

 with his cruel lash instead of such a shelter as the waiting 

 evergreens would give. Strange, when a man might have a 

 heaven of peace and beauty he chooses a very purgatory of 

 storm revels, where tempests hold their high carnivals of fury. 



Topiary Work Among Evergreens. — This term refers to or- 



Showing topiary work in Red Cedars. 



namental work or trees shaped by shearing or clipping. We 

 see too many attempts at this work which amount to mutila- 

 tion or distortion. A little will go a long way. It your trees 

 are healthy and will stand clipping, and are not overshadowed 

 by others of ranker growth which will rob them of their sym- 



