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many such trees upon this place) required an immense 
deal of coaxing to reconcile it to to our northern and 
changeable climate. The first year we left it out it was 
protected by a double box, the interval between the sidings 
being filled with tan. The second year, the tree was 
sheathed in straw and protected besides by a single box, 
with a few air holes on the north ; the third year it was 
open at the north, but protected on the east, south, and 
west, by a box with three sides. The fourth year a mat 
was substituted for the box, and the fifth year it passed 
alone through the winter, the extreme tip of some of its 
more exuberant shoots being a little injured — the w T ell- 
ripened wood being untouched — since when it survives 
our most severe weather without injury, and now takes 
its place among the really hardy evergreens. We should 
feel no more apprehension about its safety in our worst 
winters than we should about a pine or hemlock. 
A curious fact connected with this tree is, that plants 
propagated from cuttings before it became acclimatized 
are still tender, while plants propagated since its hardi- 
hood became confirmed, seem quite as hardy as the 
parent. 
We are not prepared to say that a great deal of this 
care was not a work of supererogation, and that the 
tree might have done as well with much less protection, 
and for half the number of winters, but we were work- 
ing in the dark ; the tree was a native of Florida ; it 
never had been tried here, and from the climate whence 
it originated, we did not suppose it would stand, and 
felt consequently disposed to take extra pains, for which 
we are quite compensated by the gain of a new and 
most exquisite variety, and the certainty of our know- 
ledge that all torreyas, from this plant at least, are 
are perfectly hardy in this latitude. 
We mention this, simply as one illustration of a great 
many similar experiments, with results more or less 
successful, because we are quite sure it is within the 
