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Perhaps m Slory of Dosoris is the large collection of Conifers. A 
number of these thrive which cannet withstand the severity of the 
winter buie otto Perhaps the largest Wellingtonia (Sequoia 
gigantea on the eastern side merican continent is to be seen 
besoin thin; ake head is cut out, and the consequence is that lateral 
branches are kept from getting bare and unsightl a year or two 
new leaders (al hich are out except aa are formed and 
compactly grown ornamental rrini are ther 
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Azaleas, the Ghent werte are largely gros and a hedge of 
1. amena was the finest I ever saw. Mulching is practised largely 
with these, and most ther plants at Dosoris, and the value of this pro- 
tection both against excessive drought in summer and frost in winter 
cannot well be over-estimat ed. 
Gardening altogether is wave well done, a former Kew man, 
. W. Falconer, is in charg 
KisskNA NURSERIES. 
ese nurseries, the present head of which is Mr. Samuel B. Parsons, 
are situated at Flushing, Long Island. They were. soe pe more than 
50 years ago, and the influence they have exert o be seen in the 
well planted streets of this pleasant town. The Pin Oak (Quercus 
palustris) made a stately avenue, so did the Over cup Oak (Q. macro- 
carpa); the former does well but es opem apparently She the hot 
summers of its native land to enable o thrive, as I have never seen 
outside the United States such fine v as are to be found at Pré 
and elsewhere. The Silver Maples (Acer dasycarpum) is, as in most 
other eastern American towns, a fine simae and street tree. The 
White Willow (Salix alba), naturalized i in many places, does well, as a 
street tree, and presents a graceful and picturesque outline. Taxodium 
distichum var. pendulum in thirty years has grown rapidly and formed 
tall narrow based pyramids of great beauty. The Sweet Gum (Liqui- 
dambar styraciflera) is also a successful tree for town streets; fine 
examples are to be seen here ^ Other street trees noted are Tilia 
platyphyllos, English Beech (Fagus sylvatica), Norway Maple (Acer 
platanoides), Sugar Maple (A. saccharinum), and Tulip tree. On groun 
formerly occu upied by the nursery stand the finest specimen of Pseudolarix 
Ke ri I ever saw, astately tree 50 feet high. Not far off, also on the 
old nursery ground, stands the finest weeping beech I ever saw ; this was 
planted in 1842. It is upwards of 60 feet high, and the circumference of 
the circle where the hanging branches meet the ground was 180 feet five 
years ago, The trunk is s 6 feet in circumference 3 feet from the ground, 
and a man standing by it is perfectly concealed from those without the - 
circle by the thick curtain of foliage. Near this I noticed a plant of Mag- 
nolia macrophylla 35 years old, whieh was 40 feet in — with a spre 
of branches about 40 feet. Other noteworthy trees were Picea 
orientalis 50-60 feet, ey Pers 1 50 age Abies cephalonica 50 feet, 
a very large tree of th e Beech, &c. Crategus Pyracant tha 
was noted as an excellent ledet la 
In grounds near the residence of Mr. Parsons I noticed a w onderfully 
fine specimen of the c ut-leaved form of our English ,an 
finest specimen I ever saw of Tilia petiolaris, a —— tree 70 feet 
high, whieh Mr. Parsons informed me was 50 years old. Japanese 
