"I don't like evergreens - they look so cold and gloomy in winter, and it is so mournful to hear the wind blow through them," is an expression, not so common as it once was, to be sure, but one yet quite too familiar to our ears. The facts in the case are, we are too apt to predicate opinions on first impressions, and if prejudice does not establish those opinions, too often in violation of reason and good taste, it is a fortunate circumstance.

Evergreen trees and shrubs do not attract particular attention in the season of deep and fresh verdure. The new-born foliage of spring spreads its fascinations over a large surface of forest and lawn, and with the variety of form and feature it presents, the eye and the mind find so wide a field of wonder and observation, that their researches stop, leaving such as have retained their foliage through the desolations of winter, unnoticed - almost unknown. To the careful observer, however - to him who seeks for beauty every where, and sees in every form to which Nature has lent her friendly touch in finishing - these evergreens present a beauty of foliage to which the deciduous trees of the forest can lay no claim. How richly their young and tender verdure contrast with that on the lithe twig which has stood and borne the vicissitudes of devastating winter I The Hemlock, long despised but coming to be justly admired for its symmetry of form, and light, feathery foliage, is a beautiful illustration of this variety of leaf, so closely joined as to give no interruption of foliage, and yet as distinctly marked as the termination of its branches.

The Pines, the Fir, the Spruce, the Cedar, and, indeed, all our northern evergreens, possess the same peculiarities, though some of them, perhaps, in a less observable degree; yet what they may lack in this peculiarity of spring beauty, they make up in the richness of autumn; for when each leaf of the previous year has fulfilled its functions, and the new growth of leaves have attained their size and are fully prepared to enter on their life-preserving, life-giving labors, the old leaves turn to a pale yellow, and remain upon the branches a few days, until their last hold on the parent twig is broken, indicating the sallowness of death in contrast with the rich and healthful vigor of active life. •

We have said, in a former article, that we admire all the trees of the forest. It would be very strange indeed, then, if we had not a peculiar fondness for those which present such marked difference of foliage in spring and autumn - and more especially if we did not greet their unchanging verdure with a smile of happy recognition, in the bare and desolating reign of winter.

Smile-not, reader, if you find time and disposition to read these remarks. We see them, not to be gloomy appendages of earth, but rich and beautiful products, created to enliven and decorate the season of storms and tempests, and while reminding us of the. blooming, verdant past, they give friendly assurance that Nature will again awake in freshness, and that her drapery of green will again embellish the earth with sights to feast the eye and make glad the heart.

It is but a few short years since any but the very few have thought of embellishing their grounds at all with evergreens; and, until recently, none but those from a distance have been permitted to take an adopted abode near the residence of man; .we are pleased to see, however, in these latter days, a growing disposition to introduce them into pleasure grounds. If the same good taste would extend itself and sprinkle them with other trees along our highways, the scenery would be improved by the increase of variety. One objection to this, however, must remain until men become sufficiently civilized to keep the streets clear of marauding quadrupeds All animals have a stronger propensity to wage war on this class of trees than upon any other; consequently they are first to suffer from their warfare. Again, an evergreen tree cannot be perfect unless it grows in a conical form; Nature teaches this fact Where-ever they are found in open lands, or in their woodlands where their growth is unrestricted, their branches extend nearly or quite to the ground. Time does not deprive them of these lower branches.

Nature probably demands them, to shelter their roots from the scorching suns of summer and the severe frosts of winter; beauty demands them, to give perfection to the exquisite models of Nature's workmanship. But plant them in our highways, with ever so much form of beauty, which would extend itself with each successive year, and how long would the tasteless, roving ruminants that infest our streets to the annoyance of all peaceable, progressive citizens, allow the destruction of this beauty to be incomplete?

But there are other purposes than those of mere beauty to which evergreens can, and eventually will, be applied. The utility of planting belts of them to protect exposed, bleak situations from the violence of winds, is a fact too firmly fixed to admit of a doubt. The only reason why many such belts are not planted each year, probably, is, that they will not afford the desired protection the coining winter - that a few years must pass after the work is done before the benefits can be fully realised; so, instead of setting about the work and shortening this time, we suffer delay to carry it further from us, until once, twice, three times the period is passed that would be necessary to realize the protection.

It was formerly supposed that more care was necessary in removing evergreens, than was usually bestowed on other trees of the forest. All trees should be removed and planted with the utmost care. As few roots should be broken, and as many of the spongioles retained as possible; and, acting upon this principle, we have no more reluctance in undertaking the removal of a Pine or a Fir than we have of an Elm or a Maple. The roots of some trees are more easily injured than are those of others, which, of course, makes greater caution necessary; but in removing Pines from low lands where the roots are easily retained, we have uniformly met with desirable success. In such lands, however, we have usually found them growing from bogs or the mossy covering of old logs, where the earth, by a little care, can at any time be retained around the roots, and the rootlets remain undisturbed throughout the whole operation; so that no delays in growth have been the consequense of removal. May is the month, which, in our experience, is most favorable lor transplanting evergreens; and we have succeeded well in the operation until the new growth of three had been made: at about the time of the bursting of the bud, however, we should consider the best time.