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rent discrepancies in the various returns which we 
have received from these places, and we are led, there- 
fore, to these conclusions, viz : that the hardihood and 
success of trees depend not exclusively upon climate, 
and that a few degrees of latitude, north or south, are 
of far less importance than proper soil and situation, and 
that a thorough knowledge of what to do, which ex- 
perience alone, after many mishaps, can teach, will 
often enable us to grow trees at the North and East 
which do not seem to succeed now at the West and the 
South. For instance, in the neighborhood of Natchez, 
within six miles of that city, and on an elevation of three 
hundred and twenty-six feet above the river, the 
Gardenia Florida, the Pittosporum, the Magnolia fuscata, 
the M. grandiflora, the Olea fragrans, the Myrtles in 
variety, the English laurel, the Laurestinus, thrive 
perfectly. 
The Deodar cedar and Cryptomeria Japonica, never 
suffer except occasionally from caterpillars, and become 
luxuriant trees ; there being specimens of the former 
thirty feet high, and of the latter fifteen feet, with 
branches in both trees sweeping the ground. Cunning- 
hamia Sinensis is also perfectly hardy, and has reached 
a height of from fifteen to eighteen feet, and yet the 
Abies Smitliiana is reported as not quite hardy and 
sometimes injured by spring frosts, though at New- 
port, the Abies Smithiana is said to be the hardiest of 
all the spruces — more so even than the Abies excelsa, 
(the common Norway). Again, in a report from Penn- 
sylvania, in the neighborhood of Warrior’s Mark, on 
the side of one of the Alleghany mountains, at an altitude 
above the sea of 1,020 feet, and in latitude 40° 40', and 
where the thermometer has indicated 23° below zero, 
where even the Ailanthus, Catalpa, and Paulownia are 
annually cut to the ground, the Cryptomeria flourishes, 
though browned, and the Deodar cedar survives, though 
making little or no progress, when the cedar of Le- 
