inspired Joseph Addison to say, "That they fill the 

 mind with calmness and tranquillity, that they lay 

 all its turbulent passions at rest, that they give us 

 a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of 

 Providence and suggest innumerable subjects for 

 meditation. I cannot but think the very compla- 

 cency and satisfaction which we take in these 

 works of Nature to be a laudable if not a virtuous 

 habit of mind." 



I know of a sky-line planting of pyramidal 

 evergreens that immediately gave to an uninter- 

 esting, flat, unbeautiful landscape an individuality, 

 a charm almost unbelievable. Groups of pyram- 

 idal red cedars ( Juniperus virginiana) of dif- 

 ferent heights were spaced irregularly, together 

 with white spruce, and brought to an insignificant, 

 uninteresting view an opulence, a dignity, that 

 countless other things planted there still left 

 mediocre and flat. 



The white spruce grows so fast, is so robustly 

 graceful, so richly green, and its pale, tender tips 

 in the Spring are so lovely. Grouped with them 

 were Nordmann's firs — they branched to the very 

 ground — and white firs were near for the con- 



