EVEEGEEEN OENAMENTAL SHETTBS. 589 



moment recommend for general planting in exposed 

 Bunny situations. 



For amateurs, who have the advantage of a wood, or 

 a long line of high fence, upon the northern side ot 

 which they may have a shaded border, there are several 

 other things we would suggest : such as the hardy 

 Heaths, the hardy Selgic azalias, costing in England 

 £10 per hundred (fifty cents apiece), for named vari- 

 eties, in twenty different colors : the different Andro- 

 medas, the Ehodora Canadensis, the various Gaulthe- 

 rias, the Ledums, the pretty family of Menziesias, the 

 Epigsea, the different varieties of Box, the green and 

 the variegated Euonymous. 



The Hex Scottica is represented to us as quite as fine 

 and as hardy as Ilex laurifolia, though we have not yet 

 tried it. 



In those parts of the country, too cold to grow the 

 English ivy, we would suggest large circular beds, in 

 appropriate parts of the pleasure-grounds, to be planted 

 in ivy ; and which, while permitted to fill the bed, should 

 be. kept within it by clipping. Beds in this way filled 

 (the ground being well covered in) with the different 

 varieties of the Gold-striped, the Silver-striped, and the 

 Dark Giant, are very effective and striking, and when 

 not protected by snow in winter, can readily be so by a 

 few cedar or hemlock boughs thrown over them. 



Note -As this wort is passing ttrough the press, we have reoeivea a twig, per- 

 fectly green ana fresh, of an Abies Donglasii, from a tree at Cazenoyia, NewTork, 

 Dlanted in 1858, when only eighteen inches high, and that has now reached the alti- 

 tnde of eight feet, making annnal shoots of fifteen to twenty inches, withstanding a 

 temperature in 1855-6-T, of 25° to 28= Ulow zero, without the slightest protection 

 or the least iniury; while the A. Menziesii is immediately destroyed, and the Silver 

 fir rlef ■^h^ifflTulty, and where neither the Cedar of Lebanon, the Finns 

 excelsa, or Picea pinsapo, succeed at all. . . . , 



The tree from which the specimen was sent us, is growing m a retentive loam, 

 rarely suffering fcom drought, but planted on an open lawn, entirely exposed oil 



^" Ws'^^tms conclusive evidence that cold at least, does not Injure the Dougl^ flr, 

 «nd that it maybe classed " Perfectly hardy" in a climate usually considered the 

 most severe, or one of the most severe, in the State of New York. 



