SHRUBBERY AND TREES 



All outdoors has the advantage of flowers and 

 tender foliage plants in the spring and summer, but 

 during the cold, dreary fall and winter months, we 

 have only shrubbery and trees to depend upon for 

 beautification of the grounds, and so they perform 

 an even more important function in life than the 

 many varieties of flowers. To understand what a 

 dreary life it is without trees and shrubbery during 

 the cold days of winter one needs but to travel 

 through some of the Middle Western States where 

 miles and miles of country are swiftly traversed 

 with never a view of any growing thing except a 

 bit of straggling, ugly sagebrush here and there. 

 One day's journey only is needed to give a fair idea 

 of what the lack of evergreen growth means to the 

 world. Yet we who are constantly surrounded by 

 plant life in abundance do not appreciate to the 

 fullest extent the immense benefit to be derived. 

 In the South where the season is long and vege- 

 table growth is rendered so easy, it is almost im- 



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