January 30, 1S95.] 



.Garden and Forest. 



45 



Cultural Department. 

 A few Good Shrubs of the Hardiest Type. 



OWNERS of gardens in central and southern New England 

 and New York, and other regions with corresponding con- 

 ditions of climate, enjoy the advantage of being able to 



winter, sheltered and peculiarly favorable localities are some- 

 times found where certain plants will grow satisfactorily which 

 will not endure in most positions in the surrounding country. 

 So many costly experiments have been made by private indi- 

 viduals that we now have a fair idea of the powers of endur- 

 ance of most of the trees and shrubs generally known in 

 cultivation. Exotic ornamental shrubbery has received less 



grow a much larger variety of fruit and ornamental trees and 

 shrubs with less trouble than is possible in cold exposures 

 farther north and in higher altitudes, and especially in the cold 

 dry regions of the north-west. Here and there throughout the 

 colder regions, where the mercury occasionally falls to twenty- 

 five or thirty or more degrees below zero of Fahrenheit every 



the Black Spruce. — See page 44. 



attention than most other branches, but within a few years 

 a much wider interest has been shown in this class of plants, 

 and the work of testing and disseminating them has'been fos- 

 tered by some of the agricultural experiment stations. In 

 future we mavsee some other shrubs as well known and com- 

 monly planted about bleak farm-houses as the common Lilac, 



