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moment recommend for general planting in exposed 

 sunny situations. 



For amateurs, who have the advantage of a wood, or 

 a long line of high fence, upon the northern side of 

 which they may have a shaded border, there are several 

 other things we would suggest : such as the hardy 

 Heaths, the hardy Belgw azalias, costing in England 

 10 per hundred (fifty cents apiece), for named vari- 

 eties, in twenty different colors : the different Andro- 

 medas, the Rhodora Canadensis, the various Gaulthe- 

 rias, the Ledums, the pretty family of Menziesias, the 

 Epigsea, the different varieties of Box, the green and 

 the variegated Euonymous. 



The Ilex Scottica is represented to us as quite as fine 

 and as hardy as Ilex laurifolia, though we have not yet 

 tried it. 



In those parts of the country, too cold to grow the 

 English ivy, we would suggest large circular beds, in 

 appropriate parts of the pleasure-grounds, to be planted 

 in ivy ; and which, while permitted to fill the bed, should 

 be kept within it by clipping. Beds in this way filled 

 (the ground being well covered in) with the different 

 varieties of the Gold-striped, the Silver-striped, and the 

 Dark Giant, are very effective and striking, and when 

 not protected by snow in winter, can readily be so by a 

 few cedar or hemlock boughs thrown over them. 



NOTE. As this work is passing through the press, we have received a twig, per- 

 fectly green and fresh, of an Abies Douglasii, from a tree at Cazenovia, New York?, 

 planted in 1853, when only eighteen inches high, and that has now reached the alti- 

 tude of eight feet, making annual shoots of fifteen to twenty inches, withstanding a 

 tomperature in 1855-6-7, of 25 to 28 below zero, without the slightest protection 

 or the least injury ; while the A. Menziesii is immediately destroyed, and the Silver 

 fir raised with difficulty, and where neither the Cedar of Lebanon, the Pinus 

 excelsa, or Picea pinsapo, succeed at all. 



The tree from which the specimen was sent us, is growing in a retentive loam, 

 rarely suffering from drought, but planted on an open lawn, entirely exposed on 

 every side. 



This seems conclusive evidence that cold at least, does not injure the Douglas fir, 

 and that it may be classed " Perfectly hardy" in a climate usually considered the 

 most severe, or one of the most severe, in the State of New York. 



