538 LANDSCAPE GAKDENENG. 



mentioned,* too tender to be entirely exposed all the 

 year. 



The Ilex laurifolia (Laurel-leaved holly), strikes us, 

 after the Mahonia, as the next most valuable ever- 

 green shrub, even more so here than ournative-Kalmia, 

 which is very apt to suffer from our hot August weather. 

 We have grown this Ilex many years, both in a wood 

 and. in the most open situation, and apparently with 

 equal success; though we presume in certain seasons, 

 with great alternations of heat and cold, those exposed 

 would be apt to scorch. It has a leaf of a color and 

 habit like the Camelia, and even finer ; and, if we regard 

 foliage alone without flower (though even this is pretty), 

 we should say we had no finer plant upon this place. It 

 is an exceedingly great favorite of ours, and strange to 

 say, we have never seen it elsewhere. 



The Kalmia latifolia (the Broad-leaved Kalmia), or 

 American Sheep-laurel, as it is commonly called, is 

 another very desirable shrub, as well as its varieties 

 K. angustifolia (Narrow-leaved Kalmia) ; K. myrtifolia 

 (Myrtle-leaved) ; K. carnea (Ked-flowering Kalmia), &c. 

 It is somewhat difficult to move, and although the 

 mountains in our neighborhood abound with them, we 

 have found it less expensive to import plants from 

 England, raised from seed, at fifteen cents apiece, than 

 to transplant the native habitats of the mountains, with 

 their long straggling roots. Though it will grow in the 

 sun, yet in the shade it becomes a different plant. 



The above, with the different Yews, Arbor vitses, 

 creeping and low-growing Junipers, &c., are the only 

 dependable evergreen shrubs that we can at thia 



* Atro sanguineum (Superb Deep maroon) ; Archimedes (Superb Rose de 

 Chine); Angiola (Superb Cherry pink); Brayamum ; Ourrcamim (Superb 

 Truss nine rose) ; Chancellor ; Fastuosum (Magnificent Truss lilac); Gigan- 

 tevm; Hannibal; Henry Vrummond ; Lvxidum ; Rubrum Maculaium , 

 Nero; Ne Plus Ultra (Tine lilac); Poussin ; Reedianum (Small Truss rose- 

 pink, but fine) ; Sir Isaac Newton ; Vandyck. ; Victoria (Superb Deep lilac) ; 

 Cleopatra; Invictum ; Proserpine; Speciosum. 



