On Plmiting Evergreens. 



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distinction, American plants. In some pleasure grounds 

 there are spots of ground set apart for -the exchisive culture of 

 these shrubs, and such places are called American gardens, — 

 and rich, beautiful, evergreen gardens they are too, the plants 

 being most generally grouped in irregular beds cut in smooth 

 elastic turf, and the whole skirted by large bushes of the same 

 species, from ten to twenty feet high, forming a dense, dark 

 mass of evergreen foliage, the front of the mass, next to the 

 walk, being planted with the andromedas, azaleas, and such 

 like, the whole being in character, in unison, and in harmony, 

 the plants being all of the same family, and requiring almost 

 the same kind of treatment in their cultivation. 



But let us analyze one of these little varied and picturesque 

 English shrubberies, from a memorandum taken during a 

 visit : — 



v3'rbutus, 5 varieties. 



Magnolia, 12 vars. 



Araucaria imbricata and exc^lsa. 



Cunninghamia lanceolata. 



JJibes, 3 vars. 



Mahonias, 4 vars. 



Berberies, 7 vars. 



Kolreuteria paniculata. 



Diosperos virglnica. 



iJiixus, 4 vars. 



Virgilia lutea. 



Pavia, 3 vars. 



Cytisus, 4 vars. 



Pittosporum tobira. 



Quercus, evergreen, 3 vars. 



Hamilodendron argenteum. 



Camellia, 4 vars. 



Pinus, 30 vars. 



A^bies, 12 vars. 



Holly, 12 vars. 



Thuja, 4 vars. 



Mtlia azadarach. 



Taxodium, 2 vars. 



Edwardsia macrophylla. 



Cydonia, 5 vars. 



Cedrus libani and deodara. 



Laiirus nobilis and Benzoin, 



Sweet Bay. 

 Phillyrea pendula, vars. 



Junlperus, vars. 



Chimonanthus, 3 vars. 



Cupressus, 10 vars. 



i^agus, 7 vars. 



Escallom'a rubra, and 4 vars. 



•Acacia, 12 vars. 



Cratse'gus, 18 vars. 



Cerasus, 2 vars., Laurel. 



f/lex, 3 vars. 



Euonymus, 3 vars. 



Xanthoylum fraxineum. 



Ptelea, 2 vars. 



Aucuba japonica. 



jRhododendron, 36 vars. 



Daphne mezereum. 



Fibiirnum, vars. 



Spartium, white and yel., double. 



Amelanchier, numerous vars. 



JJhamnus alaternus. 



Wistaria, 2 vars. 



Salisbiiria adiantifblia. 



Coloneaster, 3 vars. 



Myrtus, 4 vars. 



Genista, 3 vars. 



Dacrydium cupressiiium. 



Podocarpus nucifer. 



Eucalyptus, 2 vars. 



O'lea europi-a. 



