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Our own plants have only been out one year, but seem to 

 succeed perfectly well. We have returns from a good many 

 parts of the country where it has not been left. out all winter, 

 and also from Mr. Eeid, at Elizabethtown, where it was, and 

 who has a specimen four to five feet, perfectly hardy. He 

 thinks, in time, it may prove as common as a Norway spruce, 

 being very rapid in its growth. At Woodlawn, N. J., it stands 

 well, the largest specimen being' four to five feet. At Eochester, 

 it is hardy, and also at Augusta. 



Widdringtonia. The African Cypress. 

 A new, distinct variety of cypress, found at Cape of Good 

 Hope, and Madagascar, and named after Capt. Widdrington, 

 and a variety of which, erroneously called Widdringtonia eri- 

 coides, has been imported into this country, and is cultivated 

 with some success, doing very well here in the shade, and 

 also at Washington and Augusta. We hardly know why it 

 comes out to us as a Widdringtonia. In the English collection 

 it is called Retinispora ericoides, and in the French, Ghammsy- 

 paris ericoides ; but, by whatever name it is called, it is a pretty 

 heath-like little shrub, resembling somewhat the Irish juniper. 

 It is cultivated in Japan (its native country), in pots, and 

 called «Nezu,"— (Dwarf.) 



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But very little progress has been made in the planting 

 of evergreen shrubs. As great as has been the ad- 

 vance in trees, especially the coniferous, there has been 

 nothing to correspond with it in the introduction of 

 evergreen shrubs. With the exception of a few varieties 

 of the Berberries — ^like Japonica, Bealii, Intermedia, 

 &c., we do not remember anything available for this 



