480 LANDSCAPE GAKDENIN6. 



banon, tlie Silver cedar and the Douglas fir are kille( 

 outright. Now at "Wodenethe, we find the Silver ceda 

 and the Cedar of Lebanon much hardier than thi 

 Deodar, yet at Newport the Cedar of Lebanon will no 

 stand, and at Philadelphia, Mr. Meehan says the Deoda 

 is killed on dry soil, and uninjured on wet ; while at i 

 country place near Boston, on a slope facing the south 

 without any protection or shelter from other trees 

 Deodar cedars planted in 1853, have been brownei 

 but slightly, though exposed to the sun all the day lon^ 

 Cedars of Lebanon planted at same time, get mor 

 browned. 



It is very evident from all this, we think, that w 

 cannot form any decisive opinion as to what is and wha 

 is not truly hardy in any one portion of the countrj 

 where we receive so many contradictory reports ; but-i 

 does not follow that a failure for one or two yean 

 unless very complete, should discourage us so entire! 

 as to prevent our trying the same plant again in othe 

 situations and under difierent treatment. Because th 

 Indian spruce {A. Smitjiicmd) suffers from spring froE 

 near Natchez, when the Cryptomeria and Deodar do nol 

 let us rather hope to acclimatize it by moving the sprue 

 to a higher or drier situation, where being more r« 

 tarded, it will either ripen off its annual growth bettei 

 or push later in the spring. If the Indian spruce i 

 hardier at Newport, where the thermometer sometime 

 gets very low, than the common Norway, there can "b 

 little doubt but what it will grow near Natchez, whe: 

 properly placed. If too, the Deodar cedar, and Ceda 

 of Lebanon thrive near Philadelphia, in wet and lovs 

 instead of high and dry soil, it will be very easy fo 

 planters of these trees in that vicinity to adopt thi 

 hint; while we, who have found the reverse of thi 

 true, will act in accordance with our experience. 



So also of the Cryptomeria — ^if it has been found t 

 withstand a cold of 23° below zero, on the AUeghan 



