General Notices. 505 



Wistaria sinensis and the Yellow Banksioe rose, trained to 

 the same post, which should not be less than from 16 to 20 

 feet high, make a most elegant combination. 



Athens, Ga., Oct. 20, 1849. 



We are glad to welcome our old correspondent, after so long 

 an absence. His communications will always be read with 

 interest, and we hope No. 3 will be soon forthcoming. — Ed. 



xMISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Notices. 



Rare Conifera' and Improvements at the Cairnies, Perthshire, the property 

 of George Pulton, Esq. — The following article on the Coniferae, whicji have 

 proved hardy in the North of Scotland, we copy from the North British 

 Agriculturist, published at Edingburgh, and commend it to the particular 

 attention of gentlemen who are making plantations of this tribe of trees, or 

 who maybe about forming pinetums, which are now attracting, and deserv- 

 edly too, so much attention in Great Britain. Though our country is rich 

 in species and varieties of the pine and fir tribe, yet there are a great num- 

 ber of equal beauty, natives of Southern Europe and Asia, as well as of our 

 new territory of California, — which it is very desirable to add to those we 

 already possess; but as it is uncertain how many, and which, of the great 

 number recently introduced to Europe will prove hardy, only upon trial, — 

 and as this can only be done at great expense, we are glad to avail our- 

 selves of the experience of others, and deduce from their results what may 

 probably be accomplished in our own clime. 



Perthshire is in the North of Scotland, on the eastern coast, in about lat- 

 itude 57° North, five degrees North of London, and where the weather, 

 during winter, is very much more severe than around the latter city ; and 

 such of the pines as have proved hardy in Perthshire, we do not doubt will 

 be so in the latitude of Boston. P. excelsa and austriaca, Cedrus Deodara, 

 J.^bies Smithiana and others, we have already shown are quite hardy here. 



Several of the species enumerated below, are yet rare and extremely 

 beautiful, and command high prices ; and to purchase them and at once 

 risk them to the inclemency of our severe winter, without any knowledge 

 of their capability of resisting cold, other than that which may be inferred 

 from their native habitats, is what but few can afford, or are willing to do ; 

 but with such evidence as that now before us, there will be but little risk 

 in planting out any of the species or varieties named — and as they become 

 more plentiful, and obtained at moderate rates, those that succeed can be 

 duplicated to any extent; the loss of one or two will not be regretted, if 

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