538 LANDSCAPE GAEDENING. 



mentioned,* too tender to be entirely exposed all the 

 year. 



The Ilex laurifoUa (Laurel-leaved holly), strikes us, 

 after the Mahonia, as the next most valuable ever- 

 green shrub, even more so here than our native Kalmia, 

 which is very apt to suffer from our hot August weather. 

 "We have grown this Ilex many years, both in a wood 

 and in the most open situation, and apparently with 

 equal success; though we presume in certain seasons, 

 with great alternations of heat and cold, those exposed 

 would be apt to scorch. It has a leaf of a color and 

 habit like the Oamelia, and even finer ; and, if we regard 

 foliage alone without flower (though even this is pretty), 

 we should say we had no finer plant upon this place. It 

 is an exceedingly great favorite of ours, and strange to 

 say, we have never seen it elsewhere. 



The Kahnia latifolia (the Broad-leaved Kalmia), or 

 American Sheep-laurel, as it is commonly called, is 

 another very desirable shrub, as well as its varieties — 

 K. cmgustvfolia (Narrow-leaved Kalmia) ; K. myr^folia 

 (Myrtle-leaved) ; K. carnea (Eed-flowering Kalmia), &c. 

 It is somewhat difficult to move, and although the 

 mountains in our neighborhood abound with them, we 

 have found it less expensive to import plants from 

 England, raised from seed, at fifteen cents apiece, than 

 to transplant the native habitats of the mountains, with 

 their. long straggling roots. Though it will grow in the 

 sun, yet in the shade it becomes a different plant. 



The above, with the different Yews, Arbor vitses, 

 creeping and low-growing Junipers, &c., are the only 

 dependable evergreen shi-ubs that we can at this 



* Mro sangumeum (Superb Deep maroon) ; Archimedes (Superb Eose de 

 Chine) ; Angiola (Superb Cherry pink) ; Brayamum ; Ou/rrcarmm (Saperb 

 Truss lilao rose) ; Chancellor ; Faatuosum (Magnificent Truss lilao) ; Oigan- 

 tewm ; , Scrnnibal ; Henry Drummond ; Xuxidum ; Subrum Macidatum, 

 Sero ; M Plua XfUra (Fine lilao) ; Poussin ; Beedicmvm (Small Truss rose- 

 pink, but fine) ; Sir Isaac Newton ; Vandyck ; Victoria (Superb Deep lilao) ; 

 Oleopatra ; Invictum; Proserpine; Speciosum, 



