cases by llie greater protection from excessive cold aftorded by the covering of enow 

 which in northern exposures remains less influenced by the temporary thaws occasioned 

 bv a mid-day sun. 



I had intended to make some remarks upon the families of plants, (such as the 

 Andromodas and some others), from wliich, so far as analogy goes, it is fair to presume 

 an attempt to introduce them would be successful. But my i)apcr is already, I fear, 

 longer than you will desire. Many useful suggestions might be made as to the situations 

 and climates from which new evergreens sliouW be sought by travelers, on whi(di, if you 

 tliink it would be useful, I will, on some future occasion, send you some remarks. (G) 



[ 1. "We prefer evergreen boughs, whenever they can be obtained ; straw is nnsightlv, 

 and can scarcely be used unless when laid on rather thickly. We once saw rare and 

 tender Conitera; protected with evergreens in the grounds of II. W. Sargent, Esq., of 

 Fishkill, and it struck us then as a very decided imi)roveinent on straw. Every day we 

 see the winter effect of gardens marred by numerous straw coverings, hke so many 

 miniature straw stacks. 



(2.) The Catawbiense varieties are the most hardy. Indeed, they stand quite well on 

 Mr. Sargent's grounds. This gentleman has groups of them that would not discredit 

 an English lawn. With us, as far north as 43°, they stand too, especially in situations 

 facing north. We usually throw a few leaves over them on the setting in of winter. 



(3.) The Mahonias we regard as by far the most valuable low-spreading evergreen. 

 It is of free, rapid growth, and succeeds in all places. The leaves do get browned 

 slightly in winter, where exposed to the sun, but not in shaded places. There is verj'^ 

 little practical difference in the general appearance of those named — the distinctions 

 are botanical. The Euonymus Japonicus Avill not stand here without protection — 

 none of the varieties — they get cut to the ground. We have to take up the nursery 

 plants and winter them in frames. 



(4.) The English Yew stands well in almost every part of this countiy, and though 

 of slow growth makes a fine bush in a few years, and is always improving. 



(5.) This is quite correct. On the north side of a gentleman's dwelling in this city, 

 stand two of the most beautiful Deodars of their size (some five or six feet high) that 

 we remember having seen anywhere ; and they have had no protection. In other 

 places about town this tree has generally suffered from the winter. 



(6.) We shall be very happy to hear from Mr. Munn further on this subject. 



THE BEAUTY OF NEGLECTED THINGS. 



BY A YA2JKEE BUB3CRIBEE. 



"Far fetched and dear bought" is an old maxim; the pertinency of its application 

 is seen in many of our social phases ; but in none where its force is more evident, or its 

 rebuke more deserv-ed, than in our arboriculture and landscape gardening. And in my 

 first tenn I would include every thing which bears leaves and branches — like the 

 irious knowledge of wise King Solomon, "from the Cedar of Lebanon ev 

 Hyssop that springeth out of the wall." As we are prone to send across the 



