EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 
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light almost like a kaleidoscope. The leaves resemble the silk of 
maize, being as soft and delicate and not unlike it in color.” Al- 
though it grows on the mountains of Mexico at the height of eight 
thousand to nine thousand five hundred feet above the level of the 
sea, Mr. Sargent dares not trust his beautiful specimen in open 
ground in winter, and is satisfied that it is not suited to bear our 
winters, deeming it “ quite beautiful enough for pot-culture to sat- 
isfy anybody.” 
Pince’s Mexican Willow Pine. P. pinceana . — This is another 
of the Mexican mountain pines, found on the same elevations as 
the preceding, on a road leading to the City of Mexico. It is de- 
scribed as “ a very handsome tree, with long weeping branches like 
those of the weeping willow, and easily distinguished from all other 
Mexican pines on that account.” — (Gordon.) There is no proba- 
bility of its proving hardy in this country, but it may be grown in 
boxes by those having conservatories to winter it in, and serve to 
give variety to a pinetum in the open air in summer. It grows to 
sixty feet in height in its native places. 
The Chili Pine. Araucaria imbricata . — This is not a true 
pine, but is classed with them because the name by which it is 
widely known implies that it is a pine. One of the most curious 
of all trees ; the branches growing like tortuous canes, covered 
with large pointed green scales for leaves. The color of the foliage 
is the purest of deep greens. If it could be grown successfully in 
open ground we know of no evergreen that, as a curiosity, would 
be more desirable. Of the thousands of trees planted about twenty 
years ago, and since, very few are living ; but we do not yet aban- 
don the hope of seeing it acclimatized in the middle States. A 
few careful cultivators have succeeded in growing it. There 
are good trees in Baltimore and Washington, but it has failed at 
Newport, Flushing, and Cincinnati. If seed could be procured 
from the most southerly limit of its growth in Patagonia, and from 
the most exposed specimens, it could, perhaps, be made to sport 
into hardy varieties in this country. The seeds have been obtained 
principally from near Concepcion, in latitude 37°, near the sea. 
