CLIMATE. 23 



CONIFEROUS PLANTS. 



Climate. Soil. Selecting the Plants. Planting. An enumeration of 

 the principal kinds suitable for out-door cultivation, with their 

 synonyms and descriptions. 



Climate. Anomalous accounts of the nardiness of 

 particular Pines in different localities are constantly 

 reaching us. Thus, one gentleman complains that 

 certain species, which succeed admirably with his 

 neighbour, always fail with him, though the localities 

 appear of a similar nature, and other circumstances 

 are equal ; another, that many of his trees pass unin- 

 jured through the ordeal of the most severe winter, 

 but are seriously damaged by frosts in spring ; while 

 a third does not experience any material inconvenience 

 from spring frosts, but regrets the loss of vigorous 

 shoots in autumn and early winter ; and the writers 

 generally conclude by expressing their belief that the 

 climate of their locality is unfavourable for the culti- 

 vation of such plants. 



JN"ow, without being able, in the absence of an 

 acquaintance with the circumstances under which 

 such failures occur, with the original condition of the 

 plants, and with the mode of planting, and subsequent 

 attention, to decide on the real cause of such failures, 

 we have no hesitation in asserting, that, in the majority 

 of instances, causes other than the direct influence of 

 climate alone are at the root of the matter. 



