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may be reliable as to what may and what may not be 

 planted. 



"We have individuals enough in this country who are 

 willing to spend money liberally for trees if they could 

 find out what to buy, and how and where to plant. 

 The. early edition of this work, though quite up to the 

 time when it was published, is now singularly meagre 

 in its chapters on Evergreens, and there are probably at 

 this moment in this country, collections, in extent and 

 variety (though not in size of trees), greater than was 

 the Pinetum at Dropmore, in England, which Mr. 

 Downing refers to, in 1841. We are quite sure there 

 are over ninety varieties of evergreens, nearly all quite 

 hardy in this middle portion of the Hudson, which are 

 not mentioned in the first edition, and there are several 

 distinct, beautiful, and hardy genera not even alluded 

 to, such as the piceas, of which there are at present 

 known twelve distinct species, all, we believe, hardy 

 here. Mr. Downing mentions seven ai>ies, and we now 

 have in cultivation, more or less general, twenty-three 

 more. We have growing in the diflferent collections in 

 this country, principally between Washington and 

 Boston, twenty more pines, in addition to the fifteen 

 he enumerates, twenty-five junipers, against OTie in the 

 first edition ; ten new {Thvjce) arbor vitse, and seven 

 yews. 



It may be objected that these are not all hardy. 

 They may not be in one particular locality, but thi-oughout 

 the length and breadth of our land, we have a sufiicient 

 variety of climate for every thing, and if one cannot grow 

 a tree on the shores of Lake Erie, one can, perhaps, in 

 Pennsylvania or Virginia, or the Oarolinas, or Florida. 

 Besides, as we shall hope to show, a great deal more may 

 be done in planting doubtful trees (than is done) by a ju- 

 dicious selection of site and soil. We further hope to 

 show that in our best places where there is the desire 

 and means to make large collections, that one should 



