156 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



ferrugineum sti'ictum, hirsutuin, purpureum grandijlorum, Ever- 

 astianutn, and other varieties. 



Gold-edged Tree Box, Striped-leaved do., and Dwarf Box, 

 thrive better if slightly covered in winter. 



Holly-leaved Berberry, Mahonia aquifolia; Cluster-Flowered, 

 M. fasciilaris hi/brida, and Creeping, M. repens, all do best in 

 the shade, or where shielded from winter sun ; otherwise the 

 foliage gets scorched. Cotoneaster buxifolia, also requires 

 similar management. 



Ink Berry, Prinos g-laber, gets discolored with us every 

 winter. Probably the elegance of its foliage would be retained 

 in a more sheltered place. 



The above list comprises about all the evergreens which we 

 have had under cultivation ; it probably embraces more varie- 

 ties than we exhibited, but as we did not expect to prepare 

 any statement concerning them, we kept no list of the kinds. 



Walnut Hills, Brooklixe, November 17, 1862. 



PLYMOUTH. 



Report of the Committee. 



Forest Trees. — There were six entries for the premium on 

 forest trees payable this year, of which two have been with- 

 drawn. Dr.* Morton's plantation of white pines is compara- 

 tively small, but shows much order and system in planting, the 

 trees being in straight rows, averaging seven to eight feet apart, 

 well filled, there being few vacancies. The pines, planted in 

 1848, are about twenty-five feet high, and will, perhaps, average 

 at the ground one foot in diameter. Mr. Brewster's enclosure 

 consisted of twelve acres of a former barren waste, now cov- 

 ered with a young and thifty growth of white pines. No system 

 has been observed here, and to all appearance, to the eye of a 

 superficial observer, nature would seem to have employed her 

 agencies in sowing this tract of land. The seed partially failing, 

 young trees were set out, filling up the vacancies, without 

 regard to distance or to the uniformity of size in the young 

 trees. 



Tlie tortriccs, or the turpentine fly, has affected the leaders 

 of many of the trees, notwithstanding the efforts of the culti- 



