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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 
CHAPTER VII. 
EVERGREEN SHRUBS. 
A more common, free, and abundant use of evergreen slirubs 
should be adopted, because of the cheerful, bright, verdure-like 
appearance produced in the landscape when their dark and 
light green foliage and blue or scarlet berries cover with har- 
monious life-like beauty what otherwise in the dreary winter 
scenes would be barren and unsightly. Their use among 
deciduous shrubs can be more general than that of evergreen 
trees, from the fact that they only rise a few feet, and therefore, 
unlike trees, can not exhibit shade and gloom to the scene. 
Many a place is made beautiful in summer from the foliage of 
shrubs and the bloom of flowers, that in winter presents a dreary 
barren aspect, which is easily changed and draped with foliage 
and beauty by the simple planting of evergreen shrubs. Were 
we to write an entire book in advocating their general use, it 
would not half express our feelings, or perhaps any more 
advance their frequent planting than our present few words. 
To the planter who seeks to create constant beauty, or who 
desires easy gradations and harmonious combinations in land- 
scape ; to him who has but small grounds in the suburbs of a 
city ; to those who desire to clothe the last resting-place of 
earthly friends with emblems of eternity and lasting beauty, let 
me urge upon their attention the claims found in, and beauty 
derived from, the use of shrub evergreens. 
Among the most hardy, and adapted to all sections and 
positions, the Juniper in its varieties is, perhaps, most worthy 
of frequent and universal planting. There is, as we have 
