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EVERGREENS ENG THE BI 
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HERE are few persons the world over who have not a 
given us greater treasures in the whole realm of plant-lif 
their deep color, suggesting shadowy mysteriousness mz 
azure sky. In Winter they give to the landscape just f| 
ony of the brown earth or the glare of the snow-clad ¢ 
Christmas story and its gladsome festivities, or it may be 
or the Saxons, who held the Evergreen in veneration. Even the ancier 
into a Pine, and Jove, sympathizing with her in the after-grief she betra’ 
be ever green. Even to this day in China, the natives consider the Pin 
the old Pine Tree (the only green, growing thing they saw brightening 
there is the Larch which, when burned, was thought in times of witcher 
the traditions of antiquity. The Fir, St. Nicholas’s tree, the S: 
Hemlock (which we must not confuse with the plant the anci 
famous in the building of Solomon’s Temple, and the Cypress, { 
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