480 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



banon, the Silver cedar and the Douglas fir are killed 

 outright. Now at Wodenethe, we find the Silver cedar 

 and the Cedar of Lebanon much hardier than the 

 Deodar, yet at Newport the Cedar of Lebanon will not 

 stand, and at Philadelphia, Mr. Meehan says the Deodar 

 is killed on dry soil, and uninjured on wet ; while at a 

 country place near Boston, on a slope facing the south, 

 without any protection or shelter from other trees, 

 Deodar cedars planted in 1853, have been browned 

 but slightly, though exposed to the sun all the daylong. 

 Cedars of Lebanon planted at same time, get more 

 browned. 



It is very evident from all this, we think, that we 

 cannot form any decisive opinion as to what is and what 

 is not truly hardy in any one portion of the country, 

 where we receive so many contradictory reports ; but it 

 does not follow that a failure for one or two years, 

 unless very complete, should discourage us so entirely 

 as to prevent our trying the same plant again in other 

 situations and under different treatment. Because the 

 Indian spruce (A. Smithiana) suffers from spring frost 

 near Natchez, when the Cryptomeria and Deodar do not, 

 let us rather hope to acclimatize it by moving the spruce 

 to a higher or drier situation, where being more re- 

 tarded, it will either ripen off its annual growth better, 

 or push later in the spring. If the Indian spruce is 

 hardier at Newport, where the thermometer sometimes 

 gets very low, than the common Norway, there can be 

 little doubt but what it will grow near Natchez, when 

 properly placed. If too, the Deodar cedar, and Cedar 

 of Lebanon thrive near Philadelphia, in wet and low, 

 instead of high and dry soil, it will be very easy for 

 planters of these trees in that vicinity to adopt this 

 hint; while we, who have found the reverse of this 

 true, will act in accordance with our experience. 



So also of the Cryptomeria if it has been found to 

 withstand a cold of 23 below zero, on the Alleghany 



