A THIRD WINTER ON THE NEW EVERGREENS. 



CrniKssrs. — Foliis varicgatis, liardy. — Funelnis, 1)io\vu above, green below the snow. — 

 Maorocarpa, certainly the most desirable and beautiful of the Cupressi ; but, I am afraid, 

 mine is killed to the ground. Wherever the Taxodium Sempervirens will grow, this, I think, 

 will also. — Horizoutalis, uninjured. 



Taxi's. — Baceata, a little browned, but sale. — Dovaston (weeping), a little browned. — 

 Elegans, uninjured. — Elcgantissima, iminjurcd. — Adpressa, little touched. 



Tui'JA. — Aurea, beautiful ; untouched. — Thuja variegata, untouched. — Thuja Orientalis, 

 perfectly hardy. — Thuja Siberica, perfectly hardy. — Thuja Plicata, perfectly hardy. — Thuja 

 Tcndula, or lilif<)rmis, very hardy, and very desirable. 



LiBRO-cEDRus CiiiLiExsis. — Uuiujured ; a great acquisition. 



Cedrps. — Libani, hardy, though quite brown this winter. — Deodara, hardy, Ihowjh 'juitc 

 brown this winter. — Deodara viridis, hardy ; less injured. — Africanus, hardy. 



Araucaria. — Small plants ; under the snow all winter ; perfectly green. 



Cryptomeria Japonica. — Plants unprotected, looking greener than those protected. 



Cryptojieria Japonica — Nana, hardier than preceding. 



Cryptomeria Japonica Viridis, ditto. 



Cephaxotaxcs Fortuxi, Male and Female, have gone through the winter beautifully, with 

 only a few leaves round them. These trees, and the Libro cedrus, are the very greatest 

 acijuisition of last year, I believe, of the newer things. — Saxe Gotha Conspicua, and Fitzroya 

 Patagonica, will prove hardy ; perhaps Pordocarpus Taxifolia. 



CtJNxiNGHAMiA SINENSIS. — Just manages to hold its own year after year ; I have little doubt 

 it would thrive planted mainly in sand on an elevation well drained, and in shadow of a 

 pine wood. 



ToRREYA Taxifolia. — Is perhaps the most satisfactory of the rarer Evergreens. My speci- 

 men is 12 feet high, and uninjured, except the leader is a little whitened. 



Of the Evergreen shrubs that stand here without protection, are the Rhododendron, Pon- 

 ticum, Catawbiensis, and the Belgic hybrids, and the Ferrugiani Andromeda floribunda, Ilex 

 Lancifolia (Latifolia I have given up), Cotoneaster Buxfolia, Kalmia Latifolia. 



In recapitulation, I think I can grow upon this place 73 of the newer Evergreens, exclu- 

 sive of Evergreen shrubs, and of 12 varieties of Norway Spruce not yet wintered out, all 

 dwarf — never, I understand, at the end of 50 years, even exceeding three or four feet lihjh. 



I recommend, among the new things, the Pampas Grass — a superb exotic — growth, of a 

 sort of reed, G to 12 feet high, and very ornamental, and Chamserops Chusan — a new Palm, 

 said to be entirely hardy in England ; Des fontainea spinosa, and Eugenia Ugni, both Ever- 

 green shrubs of rare beauty, and said to be quite hardy ; the latter bearing a fruit. 



Very truly yours. 

 April 9, 1856. 



[The above truly valuable and reliable information, will be received by its readers with 

 great satisfaction ; it agrees entirely with our own more limited experience ; the native 

 hepilock has been as severely handled, in our neighborhood, as many of the rarer evergreens, 

 and has not stood so well as the cryptomeria. The same information, in the main, is re- 

 ceived from Cincinnati, from our correspondent, K. Buchanan, Esq., so that there is much 

 reason to be gratified with our prospects in the cultivation of evergreens ; we are now more 

 advanced in the knowledge of what will suit us than ever before. Mr. Sargent's article 

 is timely, and highly useful. — Ed.] ^ 



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