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also Pinus austriaca, which should be found in every collec- 

 tion of evergreen trees. The celebrated funebral Cypress, of 

 which we gave so favorable an account, (p. 271,) has been 

 introduced, but the rareness and high price of the plants will 

 prevent a trial of its hardiness till another year. The same 

 remark also applies to Cryptomeria japonica, which we have 

 not yet planted out in the open ground. 



The American Holly, (/1ex opaca,) which grows abun- 

 dantly on the coast of Massachusetts, at Cohasset and New 

 Bedford, is a tree deserving more attention at the hands of 

 nurserymen and planters than it has yet received. Hardy as 

 the oak, and with a thick and glossy foliage of the texture 

 of the camellia, it would form one of the most splendid ev- 

 ergreen trees to be procured, — surpassing the English holly, 

 which is so generally cultivated and admired every where in 

 England. The young plants may be raised in great quantities 

 from the seed, which are abundantly produced, and their 

 cultivation would be attended with a good demand for all 

 that could be raised. 



The evergreen trees of California, which we have before 

 alluded to, are among the finest species that are known to be 

 indigenous to this continent. Already most of them have 

 been introduced to England through the exertions of the 

 collectors sent out to that country ; and with the facilities 

 that will soon be afforded, through the tide of emigration 

 to that golden region, we hope they may be soon added 

 to the limited number which we already possess. Our 

 correspondent, W. R. Prince, Esq., now on a tour to Califor- 

 nia, has already collected many specimens of trees and shrubs 

 entirely new, which he has forwarded to his nurseries at 

 Flushing, L. I. If our nurserymen would only secure the 

 transmission of bushels of cones of the Pinus YxGvaoniiana 

 and others, but a few years would elapse before they would 

 be growing side by side with the Deodara cedar and Norway 

 spruce. 



In our last volume (p. 145) we gave a list of fifty select 

 flowering shrubs, and in the present one we hope to give a 

 similar list of the most desirable ornamental trees. Gen. Dear- 



