IV. 



EVEEGEJBEN BEAUTY. 



EW, Cedar, Pine, Fir, 

 Holly, Ivy, and Box 

 may, perhaps, be 

 called the most typi- 

 cal and prominent 

 of the Evergreens, 

 which add so much 

 brightness to Avhat 

 is nevertheless called 

 the ' dead season.' 

 These do not by any means stand alone as the 

 verdant ornaments of Winter, but they have the 

 first claim to notice. 



The Yew, quite unjustly, has fallen under the 

 displeasure of the poets. Blair, in his ' Grave,' 

 says,— 



' Cheerless, unsocial plant ! that loves to dwell 

 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms ; 



