I saw, not long since, a country house where there was a novel feature that delighted me. This was a winter landscape, or scene, on one side of the house, upon which the two rooms occupied by the family in winter looked. A broad glade of lawn was agreeably varied and quite surrounded, by beautiful evergreen trees and shrubs. From the windows commanding this scene, not a leafless tree was in sight, nor any other feature which reminded you that the leaves had fallen. The grass still green, and the white pines, spruces, firs, hemlocks, junipers, laurels, etc., from large trees to small shrubs, were all arrayed in the richest green - so as fairly to belie the season. Even when the lawn is covered with snow the evergreens are still cheerful, and their verdure is heightened by contrast. I have seldom seen a happier idea, rate it by their brilliant berries, and such plants as the Yucca and Chinese Honeysuckle (which hold their foliage all winter,) to give it variety, a winter garden might be a gay and agreeable thing to look upon when January is at its bleakest.

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