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Of ;ill I he well kiio\\n pines, we .^i\c I lie preference lo 

 our native While I'ine lor ornamental purposes. The sol' I 

 and agreeable hue of its pliant foliage, the excellent lonn ol' 

 the tree, and ils adaptation lo a ^real variel\ of soils and 

 sites, are all recommeiida I ions not easily overlooked. 



Resides it hears transplanting particularly \\ell, and is, 



on this aceonnl also, more generally seen than an\ other 

 species in onr ornamental plantations. Bid ils especial 

 merit as an ornamental tree is the perpetually line, rich, 

 lively ijreen of ils foliage. In the northern stales many 

 evergreens lose their bright color in mid-winter, owin.n l> 

 Ihe severity of (he cold; and though lhe\ regain it quickly 

 in the lirsl mild days of spring, yet this temporary diniLM- 

 ness, at the season when verdure is rarest and most pi i/.ed 

 is undeniably a ijreal defect. liolh the hemlock and the 

 \\hite |)ine are exceptions. Kven in the greatest depression 

 of the thermometer known to our neighbors on the "dis- 

 puted boundary" line,* we believe the verdure of these 

 trees is the same line unchanging ^reeii. A.yain, this thin 

 summer i^rowlh is of such a soft and lively color, thai they 

 are (unlike some of Ihe other pines, the red cedar, etc.) as 

 pleasant lo look upon, even in .June, as any fresh and full 

 foliated deciduous tree rejoicing in all its full breadth of 

 ne\\ summer robes. We place the while pine, therefore, 

 amon^ the first in the regards of the ornamental planter. 



Perhaps the most popular foreign evergreen in this 

 country is the Norway spruce. In fact it is so useful and 

 valuable a tree that it is destined to become much more 

 popular still. So hardy lhal it is used as a nurse plant to 

 break off the wind in exposed sites and shelter more lender 

 trees in yonn^ plantations; so readily adapting itself lo 

 any sile lhal it thrives upon all soils, from liijil sand or 

 dry gravel, lo deep moist loam or clay: so accommodating 

 in ils habits that it will jL>row under the shade of other 

 trees or in the most exposed positions: there is no planter 

 of new places or improver of old ones who will not find it 

 necessary lo call it in lo his assistance. Then a^ain the 



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