HAEDY EVEEGEEEN TEEES AND SHEUBS, 

 Not CONIFEEOUS. 



A few prefatory words are necessary. Although 

 all the plants mentioned and described in the following 

 pages are hardy, they are not equally so. Some 

 require the most favourable situations, while others 

 will succeed in any part of the country, and a few- 

 require particular soil and treatment. These will 

 always be indicated in their respective descriptions. 

 But where no such allusions are made, they may be 

 considered as requiring nothing beyond the ordinary 

 soil and treatment with other hardy occupants of the 

 pleasure-ground. 



The arrangement, like that of the Coniferse, is 

 alphabetical. 



A treatise on the cultivation of American plants, 

 and on the newly-introduced Sikkim Rhododendrons, 

 are inserted by way of introduction. 



ON THE CULTIVATION OF AMERICAN PLANTS. 



The substance of this treatise appeared as an intro- 

 duction to our descriptive catalogue of select hardy 



