Each of these was a perfect forest of evergreens and hot-house plants, artistically heaped up around a vessel of holy water, from which any pious passer-by was free to sprinkle the grave while repeating a prayer for its occupant.
A flower carpet, gayer than any loom of Turkey, Brussels, or France ever wove, lies under the clump of evergreens in a far corner of the estate.
Round the altar were heaped in rows, placed one higher than another, evergreens of every size and kind, mingled with islands of bright camellias, the pride of the renowned hothouses of Aldred.
Another swarm in the neighborhood deserted their keeper and went into the cornice of an out-house that stood amid evergreens in the rear of a large mansion.
If one goes under the evergreens after dark and gently shakes a branch there will be a slight fluttering of wings and disturbed sleepy notes from the juncos.
It is a long, handsome structure, with broad piazzas, and low evergreens and flowers planted in front.
The gorge of the Bridge is a botanical storehouse, greater variety of evergreens cannot be found together anywhere else in the country, and the hills are still clad with stately forests.
The rapids above are a series of shelves, bristling with jutting rocks and lodged trunks of trees, and the wildness of the scene is intensified by the ragged fringe of evergreens on the opposite shore.
In spite of their disparaging remarks, however, I persisted in having my pine tree planted; and I assure you it formed a very pleasing variety among the broad smooth leaved evergreens about it.
Her pile ofevergreens had been rudely dumped out on the ground.
One was made of smilax and pink roses; the other a small wreath of evergreens with a silver bell fastened to it.
No one in the house noticed them for a time, and they, tired by the walk, seemed content to rest under the shade of the evergreens before making known their errand.
He gazed at the distant spot beneath the evergreens where he had seen her.
Some live in the tops of evergreens and other tall trees; others, like the Maryland yellow-throat, which seems to prefer low trees and shrubbery, are rarely seen over twelve feet from the ground.
The trees were gorgeous in their gay autumn livery, but in this part of the mountain dark forests of sombre evergreens covered the narrow ravines up and down, and all the swelling heights.
Only the evergreens look as if the season could do them no harm; but their fine foliage also is darker, and they look now, when all around is bare, blacker and more dismal than ever.
The floor was covered with boughs, and around the pillars were wreathed holly and other evergreens in honour of the joyous season.
We found three or four grooms and idlers standing in the drive inspecting a bicycle which had been drawn out from a clump of evergreens in which it had been concealed.
McMurdo strolled up the winding path hedged in with evergreens until he reached the deserted restaurant which forms the centre of summer gaiety.
We still have the Christmas tree, evergreens in our houses and churches, and the yawning stocking still waits in many homes for the good St. Nicholas.
After breakfast, the finest horse in the little town is decorated with evergreens and berries and led to the house of the greatest nobleman, followed by the pea and wheat shooters of the early morning.
Next comes a procession of domestic animals, an ox, cow, goat, and pig, all decorated withevergreens and berries.
The great pine branches and the evergreens nailed against the corner posts and wreathed into festoons along the walls shook and trembled in the uproar as to the passage of winds along their native hills.
Much is said of their fondness for fruit blossoms and tree buds, but the truth is that noxious insects and seeds of grain constitute their food in summer, the berries of evergreens in winter.
These cousins are frequently seen together in winter woods or in the evergreens about houses.
The tallest, densest evergreens are not too remote for it to build its home, according to Dr.
The burn seems appropriate enough, for in these dark evergreens his throat and breast show like flame.
The densest evergreens could not altogether hide this blazing target for the sportsman's gun, too often fired at the instigation of city milliners.
Evergreens differ from deciduous plants in regard to time of pruning.
The place for the tender evergreens must be protected from dry north and east winds.
This is a great advantage to all Evergreens in moderation; the majority, if left to their own will, become straggling in growth and unsightly.
But at the same time it shows the desirability, often the necessity, of choosing positions for the tenderer evergreens in which this need of shelter is satisfactorily met.
But evergreens should never be pruned in late autumn or winter.
We have shifted many evergreenswithout one failure in April and quite late in May, but our anxieties are great when the life-giving rains refuse to refresh the earth.
Fortunately, it is one of the few evergreens that will succeed and grow luxuriantly under the drip of trees, where many other things fail.
The best plants comprise both evergreens and deciduous, but only one thing should be used, as mixed hedges are rarely a success, and of mingled evergreen and deciduous plants are generally quite a failure.
No evergreens capable of withstanding our winters exceed these shrubby grasses in beauty and grace, in luxuriance of leafage, or in their bright, fresh, green tints in winter.
Farther west, in Dorsetshire, it grows luxuriantly, and is certainly one of the loveliest of evergreens that can be grown even in that favoured county.
The following is a representative list of the hardier species of evergreens which are considered most deserving of attention, and I have roughly grouped them according to their size.
It must not be forgotten that our British evergreens flourish in the coldest parts of Yorkshire in a climate that may be considered the most trying for vegetation in the British Isles.
Everywhere the shores appear to be granite rocks, bright green foliage varying with the darker evergreens surmounting them.
The contrast between the verdure of the leaves of the evergreens and the crystalline splendor of those of the larches was strikingly beautiful.
It is true that the pines, the firs, the hemlock, and all the spike-leaved evergreens prefer a dry soil, but it has not been observed that such soils become less dry after the felling of their trees.
None of our north-eastern evergreens resemble the umbrella pine sufficiently to be a fair object of comparison with it.
Thus in Denmark and in Holland the spike-leaved firs have given place to the broad-leaved beech, while in Northern Germany the process has been reversed, and evergreens have supplanted the oaks and birches of deciduous foliage.
It is however certain, I believe, that evergreens exhale more moisture in winter than leafless deciduous trees, and consequently some weight is to be ascribed to this element.
It was the first time Peter had seen his master so clearly afraid, and from his burrow in the evergreens he growled under his breath, eyeing the open door with sudden thought of an enemy.
Spruce, Tamarack, and other evergreens from our Northern swamps, will come into play after Hemlock shall have been exhausted.
Evergreens do not sprout; and I think these should be cut in Winter--at all events, not in Spring, when full of sap and thus prone to rapid decay.
My uncle's gardener always says the soil here is better than his own, and so it appears from the growth of the laurels and evergreens in general.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evergreens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
