12 EVERGREENS. 



consumptives! There is no sucli 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-five years? These columns will be taller 

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

 grandeur will grow on you as you walk through it. Here are 

 conditions every farmier can have at a. little cost. But too 

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

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

 prefers the broad prairie to the charming forest. He lets the 

 blizzard rage and the storms howl, and the northwind sting 

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

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

 heaven of peace and beau.ty he chooses a very purgatory of 

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

 Topiary Work Among Evergreens. 



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



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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. If your trees 

 are healthy and will stand clipping, and are not overshadowed 

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



