EVERGREEN TREES. 
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CHAPTER Y. 
EVERGREEN TREES. 
The use of evergreens is becoming yearly more and more 
appreciated, both as effective in ornamental planting and as an 
item of practical economy in the matter of hedges and screens 
for protection of half hardy plants, orchards, or buildings from 
cold and harsh winds and storms. 
In ornamental planting, their use is often very imperfectly 
understood, and many places are rendered gloomy and dark 
from their too free use in the foreground, or immediately about 
the house. There is a great deal of beauty in evergreens, but 
as a class for effective scenery creative of varied beauty, they 
have not the qualities that are embraced in the changing char- 
acter from month to month of deciduous trees. For perfect 
scenery, however, covering the entire year, it would be impos- 
sible to dispense with evergreens. If used judiciously in 
arrangement, sparingly in the foreground, and using those of 
the lightest and most vivid shades of green in foliage, grouping 
them at the same time with mountain ash, euonymus or straw- 
berry tree, etc., with their red clusters of fruit in winter, and 
massing the back-ground with varieties of dark foliage, great 
effect may be produced, and a pleasant life-like character given 
to grounds that otherwise in the winter season would be barren 
and dreary. 
Some few years since, many regarded the transplanting of 
evergreens as one of the difficult items in arboriculture, requir- 
ing the skill and experience of a practical gardener. It was 
also counted unsafe to move them except at particular seasons 
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