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In addition to the shrubs and trees already suggested for the screen, 

 not a few of which, however, are well suited for single specimens, dotted 

 over the open lawn, especially such as Thuja gigantca, a very fragrant 

 and elegant species, and of pyramidal habit ; Thujopsis horealis, the 

 hardiest of all tlie coniferous family ; Gupressus Latosonii in so many 

 shades of colour and habits of growth — all handsome ; and C.fragrans. 

 Nor should we omit to name the following, viz., Ahies Alhertiana, A. 

 Alcocquiana, A. Douglasii, A. Hookeriana, A. Parryana, A. Fattoniana, 

 Cedrus AtJantica, Cryptommria dcgans, and Ctipressus funelrris, which 

 the writer finds with him to be perfectly hardy, though considered by 

 many as tender till it has lost its infantine dress and assumed its 

 permanent foliage. Jmiijjcms Sinensis, J. rccurvot, J. sqicamata, J. 

 excelsa, J. drup)acea, J. rigida ; Picca grandis, P. Loivei, P. magnifica, 

 P. nohilis, P. Nordmanniana, P. Ntimidica, a new, beautiful, and 

 hardy species from the Algerian mountains ; and P. p)insaiJO. The Pines 

 are rather large, but those here named are beautiful and admissible, 

 viz., Pinus cemhra, P. Coreaensis, and P. Austriaca. The Eetinosporas 

 are indispensable, viz., B. ericoidcs, B. filicoides, B. leptoclada, B. 

 obtusa, R. loisifera, B.plumosa, oxidi R. squarrosa ; so also Sciadopitys 

 verticillata (the umbrella pine of Japan) ; Sequoia sempervirens, 

 Thujopsis dolohrata, both green and variegated varieties ; T. filicoides, 

 T.lcetevirens, T. Standishi, Tsicga Sieholdii, and perhaps one Wellingtonia 

 gigantea. Araucaria iiribricata, though stiff and formal, may be added, 

 as when it attains a height of twenty feet or more it loses this appear- 

 ance to a great extent, and becomes a very handsome and striking 

 acquisition in any collection. 



There are still some evergreens which cannot be dispensed with, 

 and which might be put down according to taste, singly or in clumps, 

 such as aucubas, male and female, in several handsome varieties, and 

 which, when the females are clothed with their bright scarlet berries, 

 are strikingly beautiful. The same can be said of the hollies in both 

 their green and variegated types. The Osmanthus ilicifolia, also in 

 green and variegated forms, is very beautiful, and so is Baphiolepis 

 ovdta, with several sorts of Hydrangea, especially H. alha-rosea and 

 H. otaksa ; though these are not always evergreen, they both are quite 

 hardy. 



The writer having grown and familiarized himself with every one 

 of the species above suggested, can conscientiously recommend them, 

 and being all, with the exception referred to, as green in winter 

 as in summer, the latter season seems as it were prolonged throughout 

 the year, unless perhaps when frost and snow cover the face of nature 

 with a wintry shroud, while the sense of feeling is betrayed into the 

 like delusion from the warmth and shelter so perfectly maintained 

 by surro unding trees. 



