536 LANDSCAPE GAEDENING. 



climate now, wliich was not well known when Mr. 

 Downing wrote. 



There are, perhaps, a few things^ untried ten years 

 ago, which have been tested the past three or four 

 years, and not " found wanting ;" such as some of the 

 smaller English shrubs, like the Andromeda — especially 

 Floribunda — ^the Cotoneaster, of which Buxifolia, with 

 us, proves the hardiest, though Microphylla and Margi- 

 nata, both do well in the shade. And here let us remark, 

 once for all, that no evergreen shrubs do at all well in 

 this country, in the sun. Every thing, from the yew 

 down to the creeping periwinkle, succeeds well, only 

 in shade. 



If it is impossible or inconvenient, to have these 

 shrubs otherwise than exposed in open lawns, w6 should 

 recommend only the employment of certain varieties, 

 like the Ehododendrons, Catawbiensis, Kalmia latifolia, 

 Mahonia aqaifolium, and Hex laurifolia. 



These four shrubs seem to stand any amount of heat 

 and cold. Our thermometer, while we now write, indi- 

 cates sixteen helow Zero / and last summer they passed 

 through a fiery ordeal of 95° to 100° : and this they 

 have done for many years, with no other ill effect than 

 that the very hot weather changes that fine, deep, 

 dense color they universally have in the shade, into a 

 yellowish green, but they survive and grow and flourish 

 and bloom, though certainly less fine than when planted 

 on the north of buildings or woods. 



Take it all in all, we consider the Mahonia (some- 

 times called Berberris mahonia), the most valuable 

 of all shrubs, deciduous or evergreen. 



If there is any exception to our remarks above, about 

 the necessity of growing evergi-een shrubs in the 

 shade, we should make it in favor of this variety. 

 It may be imported very cheap. Messrs. "Waterer & 

 Godfrey, Knaphill Nursery, "Woking, near London, offer 

 plants, one foot high, at eighty shillings sterling, per 



