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banon, the Silver cedar and the Douglas hr are killed 
outright. Now at Wodenethe, we find the Silver cedar 
and the Cedar of Lebanon much hardier than the 
Deodar, yet at Newport the Cedar of Lebanon will not 
stand, and at Philadelphia, Mr. Meehan says the Deodar 
is killed on dry soil, and uninjured on wet; while at a 
country place near Boston, on a slope facing the south , 
without any protection or shelter from other trees, 
Deodar cedars planted in 1853, have been browned 
but slightly, though exposed to the sun all the day long. 
Cedars of Lebanon planted at same time, get more 
browned. 
It is very evident from all this, we think, that we 
cannot form any decisive opinion as to what is and what 
is not truly hardy in any one portion of the country, 
where we receive so many contradictory reports ; but it 
does not follow that a failure for one or two years, 
unless very complete, should discourage us so entirely 
as to prevent our trying the same plant again in other 
situations and under different treatment. Because the 
Indian spruce {A. Smithiana) suffers from spring frost 
near Natchez, when the Cryptomeria and Deodar do not, 
let us rather hope to acclimatize it by moving the spruce 
to a higher or drier situation, where being more re- 
tarded, it will either ripen off its annual growth better, 
or push later in the spring. If the Indian spruce is 
hardier at Newport, where the thermometer sometimes 
gets very low, than the common Norway, there can be 
little doubt but what it will grow near Natchez, when 
properly placed. If too, the Deodar cedar, and Cedar 
of Lebanon thrive near Philadelphia, in wet and low, 
instead of high and dry soil, it will be very easy for 
planters of these trees in that vicinity to adopt this 
hint ; while we, who have found the reverse of this 
true, will act in accordance with our experience. 
So also of the Cryptomeria — if it has been found to 
withstand a cold of 23° below zero, on the Alleghany 
