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Rhododendrons, Kalmias, Andromedas, &c. ; are these nursed by humid 

 atmospheres? far from •it ;• see the groves of Cedars and Junipers on the 

 arid wilds of New Jersey ;. the Pine-clothed mountains of Pennsylvania and 

 New York; and the variegated banks of our navigable rivers. They are 

 found on all soils and in all atmospheres throughout our country. Am I 

 asked why so many failures happen with the evergreens transplanted here, 

 while they are so successful in Great Britain ? I answer the fault is your 

 own, and not in the plants* you employ improper persons to do the work ? 

 who have neither the requisite knowledge to prepare the soil nor to apply 

 the treatment which the plants require: whereas in Great Britain they 

 employ gardeners, whose education and industrious research have given 

 them such knowledge — and herein lies the secret of their success ; perhaps 

 you have employed a man who calls himself a gardener,, (and our community 

 and especially cities, swarm with such gardeners, as Egypt did with locusts 

 in the days of Pharaoh.) 



There are many choice evergreens which flourish in Great Britain which 

 would not do here in exposed situations-, the following for example, Arbu- 

 tus, Aucubajaponica, the Bay tree, Portugal laurel, Laurestinus, Sweet 

 Bay, Phillyreas, Broom, Furze Heather, &c, and even our native Rhodo- 

 dendrons, Kalmias, &c. will not grow in the open sunlight here, as they do* 

 in Great Britain. 



But I could enumerate over sixty different species of evergreens which 

 will nourish with us, and a group of a score or a hundred of each kind, 

 would be enough to embellish the most extensive domain I have yet seen in 

 our country;, much fewer would adorn the grounds of the cottage. I do not 

 advocate having only evergreens- in a place ; I can see beauty in Decidu- 

 ous trees and shrubs,. I can admire stately elms, oaks, and sycamores* the 

 symmetrical forms of maples, ashes, lindens, &c, the spire-like shapes of 

 poplars,, tulip trees, &c, the spreading horse-chestnut and the drooping 

 willow, or the beautiful flowers and delightful fragrance of magnolias, and 

 other flowering shrubbery : but on all occasions they should be accompanied 

 by evergreens : for they are like butterflies, forsaking, us when we most need 

 cheer. 



There is no risk in transplanting evergreens when done by a competent 

 hand : and I say this from practical experience. I have removed arbor- 

 vitaes 3£ or 40 feet high and as much in circumference, in September, from 

 the edge of the Hudson river, and planted them on an altitude three hun- 

 dred above the level where they naturally grew, and not one ever lost a leaf 

 or their verdure : and I have removed pines of the same dimensions, in 

 spring, from the mountains of Northampton county, Pennsylvania, and 

 transported them four miles, and planted them on flat land in Warren 

 county, N. J. with the same success. 



Let ladies and gentlemen employ proper persons to superintend, and let 

 nurserymen be careful in preserving the roots when digging them up and 



