68 EVERGREENS. 



took them. But this Is contrary to the wishes and Intent of 

 the Forestry department. The Black Hills are the nurseries for 

 the great prairie states. Cattle are allowed to destroy forty 

 to every one that is taken. And if those thickets were left to 

 themselves they would destroy and crowd out each other. 

 Better far for them to adorn prairie homes than to be strangled 

 to death in the struggle for existence. 



This description is not a. covert advertisement for long ago 

 I gave up collecting evergreens. 



