INTRODUCTION. 



EVERGREENS— HOW TO GROW THEM. 



This work. like its predecessor, "The Gold Mine in the Front 

 Yard," is designed chiefly for the great Prairie States. The 

 ■writer having raised evergreens by the million under adverse 

 circumstances, and being acquamted with leading growers East 

 and West, has the pleasure of presenting facts and he is sure 

 he has made instructions so plain that the intelligent farmer 

 can do his own planting successfully. 



This is written for the common people and not for experts. 

 In the main he has used English names, and why not? For 

 instance, over eighty names are given to the Douglas Spruce and 

 its varieties. How much better off would one be for piling up 

 lumber which would never be used? So we give you the Doug- 

 las Spruce straight and you will know it just as well as if we 

 piled a ton of names on it. 



The Real Riches. 



The Real Riches: — How greedy men are for gold! Let a 

 mine ba opened at the North Pole, and adventurers would go 

 there no matter what risks or discomforts they would have to 

 encounter. Strange that men cannot see wealth all around 

 them. There are values rising into untold millions to be had 

 for the taking. They are safe. Tou incur no danger in pos- 

 sessing them'. The farmer lives in the very midst of gifts that 

 have been waiting patiently for him. I think much of the pos- 

 sibilities of the prairie. Since 1844 I have lived in six of our 

 western states and have seen them grow up from babyhood. 

 I find myself dreaming often of the possibilities of these western 

 homes. Soon the farmer will turn a little from the mere money 

 getting department of his work and give more attention to the 

 comforts, conveniences, and pleasures of life. So many improve- 

 ments are being made in grain growing and stockraising that mil- 

 lions, will be added to farm values and beautiful homes will rise like 

 magic from our fertile soil. Our farms will be like the splendid 

 estates of the rich in the suburbs of our great cities. So much 

 adornment will surround the home that living in the country 

 will be like living with God. 



