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EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 
Fig. 173. 
with a color that cannot be improved—what more can we say for 
a tree? Fig. 173 is a portrait of a full-grown hemlock in Studley 
Park, England. Fig. 174 suggests the general appearance of a 
well-grown hemlock at ten years after planting. Fig. 175 bears a 
strong resemblance to a middle-aged and picturesque specimen 
formerly growing on the edge of the rocky cliff below Niagara 
Falls. The three will give a fair idea of the varieties of form that 
hemlocks assume from youth to age. When quite young, how¬ 
ever, they are apt to grow with a lighter, looser, and more open 
growth than any of these cuts indicate ; and for half a dozen years, 
by cutting back ono-half the annual growth every spring, a richer 
weight of verdure is produced. 
The hemlock loves a warm humid soil, and does not develop 
all its beauty in thin light sandy loams, where the white pine 
luxuriates. In a congenial soil the foliage is equally fine in sun or 
shade, and where it is grown so that its branches overarch a walk 
or road, no tree that we know of shows so fine a verdure on its 
inner or shadowed surfaces. Yet, notwithstanding the cheerful 
