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other trees of less artificial forms. But the Arbor Vitae, from 
this very regularity, is well suited to support and accompany 
scenery when objects of an avowedly artificial character pre- 
dominate, as buildings, etc., where it may be used with a 
very happy effect. There is also no evergreen tree indi- 
genous or introduced, which will make a more effectual, 
close, and impervious screen than this : and as it thrives well 
in almost every soil, moist, dry, rich or poor, we strongly 
recommend it whenever such thickets are desirable. We 
have ourselves tried the experiment with a hedge of it about 
200 feet long, which was transplanted about five or six feet 
high from the native habitats of the young trees, and which 
fully answers our expectations respecting it, forming a per- 
fectly thick screen, and an excellent shelter on the north of 
a range of buildings at all seasons of the year, growing 
perfectly thick without trimming, from the very ground up- 
wards. 
The only fault of this tree as an evergreen, is the compara- 
tively dingy green hue of its foliage in winter. But to com- 
pensate for this, it is remarkably fresh looking in its spring 
summer, and autumn tints, comparing well at those seasons 
even with the bright verdure of deciduous trees. 
The Arbor Vitas is very abundant in New-Brunswick, 
Vermont, and Maine. In New-York, the shores of the Hud- 
son, at Hampton landing, 70 miles above the city of New- 
York, are lined on both sides with beautiful specimens of 
this tree, many of them being perfect cones in outline ; and 
it is here much more symmetrical and perfect in its growth 
than we have seen it. Forty feet is about the maximum 
altitude of the Arbor Vitas, and the stem rarely measures 
more than ten or twelve inches in diameter. 
