^ EVERGREEN TREES 



^^ROM a practical and pictorial standpoint no group of plants supply the garden- 

 maker with such variety as the evergreen trees. Gracefully and willingly they adapt them- 

 selves to almost any situation. They have been effectively used to frame numberless gar- 

 den pictures. They form perfect screens for blocking out unsightly views and they are 

 without equal when used near the home as bulwarks against storms and the fierce winds of 

 winter. Their permanent green outlines give formal touches to the garden in tapering 

 spires and living columns, or they can supply the naturalistic planting with graceful form 

 and softening texture. There are those among them whose massive straight-shafted heads 

 pierce the sky, and those that are as bright carpets with their irregular sprawling forms 

 clinging closely to the earth. From all parts of the world they come to us, from the 

 loftiest mountain crags and the deepest valleys. Use them generously to lend the softening 

 touch to the new home and reconcile it to the landscape. Employ them as hedges with 

 their strong limbs locked to bar the intruder and furnish privacy; as a background for 

 flowering plants to enhance the brilliance of their bloom, and to emphasize the height of 

 the hilltop or the quiet coolness of the lowland. 



Feel assured when you consider your evergreen planting that there are many for every 

 purpose, and also feel satisfied that once they are planted they will repay you a hundred- 

 fold in rich beauty, shelter and satisfaction. 



"/ u ish I could have a garden like that." If there is one remark we hear more than any other each spring, 

 spoken with sincerity rather than cm y, it is this. If regr"t is to be replaced with blossoms, tulips and spring 

 blooming perennials must be planted in the fall. 



