EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
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not discard a tree because his neighbor may have not 
been successful with it. 
There are many reasons which may operate against 
the success of a tree this year, and for several years, which 
may disappear in time. One consideration, and that an 
important one, is shelter. Plant a deodar cedar in the 
middle of a large and high field, thoroughly and en- 
tirely exposed to every blast that blows, with the full 
force of a summer, and what is worse, a winter’s sun, 
and it is hardly possible it should survive. Plant the 
same tree in the same place with the colder winds 
broken and kept off by masses of evergreens, and 
shielded from the pernicious effects of the early spring 
sun, and the chances are your tree will succeed and 
flourish. 
Again, persons are very apt to plant their new 
evergreens, especially if they are rare and costly, in 
what are called “well prepared” holes, that is, in holes 
redolent, perhaps, with guano, and with the richest 
compost to be obtained ; if the new plant is not killed 
immediately by over-dosing, it is at any rate so stimu- 
lated by excess of food as to make a succulent redun- 
dant growth of imperfectly ripened wood, which is sure 
to be killed back the first winter, and the tree become 
so enfeebled as to die outright the second; or the plant 
may have vitality enough to struggle through this sur- 
feit and after staggering for months, or perhaps a year 
or so, with this indigestion, manage to work into healthy, 
natural, unprepared soil, and eventually become a tree. 
Then again, our climate is constantly changing. This, we 
think, is conceded by every one who has wintered in 
the country the past five or ten years, and trees which 
could not or would not stand now, may five years hence ; 
and, lastly, a tree, like a man becomes finally more or 
less acclimatized — it may get knocked about some- 
what at first, but eventually learns to stand up and take 
care of itself. The Torreya, for instance (and we have 
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