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der spot in their hearts for Evergreens. 
han in her gift of the trees that remain green always. In Summer 
them as they stand against the ground of deeper color or against the 
10te of relief required to lift the vision above the sense of the monot- 
itryside. Perhaps we unconsciously associate all Evergreens with the 
at there runs in our blood the heritage of the Norsemen, the Teutons, 
sreeks told how Cybele, mother of the gods, changed a shepherd lad 
for her act, ordained that thenceforward the leaves of the Pine should 
nblematic of eternal friendship, and did not the Pilgrim Fathers take 
horizon of their landing), as the emblem of their new colony? Then 
> drive away serpents and evil things, and the Juniper, venerable in 
ce, chief mystic tree of the Indians of the Northwest, and the 
; meted out as death potion to the condemned), the Cedar, 
a which was woven the crown of Melpomeme, the tragic muse. 
Mother Nature has hardly 
