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Others; that is, in intermingling it promiscuously with other 

 trees of less artificial forms. But the Arbor Vitae, from this very- 

 regularity, is well suited to support and accompany scenery 

 when objects of an avowedly artifical character predominate, 

 as buildings, etc., where it may be used with a very happy 

 effect. There is also no evergreen tree indigenous or intro- 

 duced, which will make a more effectual, close, and impervi- 

 ous screen than this : and as it thrives well in almost every 

 soil, moist, dry, rich or poor, we strongly recommend it 

 whenever such thickets are desirable. We have ourselves 

 tried the experiment with a hedge of it about 200 feet long, 

 which was transplanted about five or six feet high from the 

 native habitats of the young trees, and which fully answers 

 our expectations respecting it, forming a perfectly thick 

 screen, and an excellent shelter on the north of a range of 

 buildings at all seasons of the year, growing perfectly thick 

 without trimming, from the very ground upwards. 



The only fault of this tree as an evergreen, is the compara- 

 tively dingy green hue of its foliage in winter. But to com- 

 pensate for this, it is remarkably fresh looking in its spring, 

 summer, and autumn tints, comparing well at those seasons 

 even with the bright verdure of deciduous trees. 



The Arbor Vitse is very abundant in New-Brunswick, 

 Vermont, and Maine. In New- York, the shores of the Hud- 

 sen at Hampton landing, TO miles above the city of New- 

 York, are lined on both sides with beautiful specimens of 

 this tree, many of them being perfect cones in outline. Forty 

 feet is about the maximum altitude of the Arbor Vitas, and 

 the stem rarely measures more than ten or twelve inches in 

 diameter. " 



The wood is very light, soft, and fine-grained, but is re- 



