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CONDENSED DESCRIPTIONS OF TREES AND SHRUBS. 



We commence this list witli the Evergreen trees and' shrubsf 

 or creepers. The trees are valuable as screens from cold winds, 

 hedges, and as features of beauty and of ba&k-gfbuffds in the 

 creation of beautiful home grounds, and especia:lly do they give 

 life ideal in the winter. A tall symmetrical' evergreen in wiiiter, 

 laden with frozen snow, in the early rays of the moMilig suii of 

 the soft, silvery light of the moon, can never be seen without 

 feeling that all of beauty comes from the good Grod's creation, 

 not man's artifice. Many places, however, are rendered globnly 

 and dark from their too free use in the foreground and' near to 

 the house. Many have planted beautiful Norway spruces of 

 three feet high within eight feet of theii- front windows, or three 

 feet of their walks or roadways, forgetting that in half a, dozen to 

 a dozen of ye*s they will "be from twenty to thirty feet high, 

 and as many of breadth of limb base. The same silly thing hsis 

 been done on lots in a cemetery of 12 by 20 feet 



In evergreens there is a great deal of beauty, especially in 

 winter, but as a class for effective scenery, creative of varied 

 beauty in months when deciduous trees are in bud, bloOm and 

 foliage. They have not the qualities of a change in character 

 from month to month of the deciduous trees and shrubs. They 

 can be grouped beautifully with the Mountain Ash, Euonymus 

 or Strawberry tree, which bear clusters of red fruit in late 

 autumn and winter. 



lu' removing and' transplanting evergreens the first statement 

 was, thati they should have balls of earth attached, the next was 

 that ttiey^coiild only be moved at certain seasons of the year; 

 but tho^ who practically and theoretically understand the ever- 

 green tree or plant, can move them at any time when the ground 



