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hedge of it many years planted, which suffered a great deal at 
first, but of late years, by severe cutting in the spring it seems 
to have become quite acclimatized. 
B. orientalis glauca , and B. argentea , are new varieties, 
not yet, we think, introduced ; the first a seedling of Messrs. 
Pince, of Exeter, England, of a very silvery appearance, and 
the latter resembling the Aurea, being silver instead of gold. 
B. orientalis aurea , (the Golden arbor vitae,) is a seedling of 
Messrs. Waterer, in England, we believe from the old B. 
orientalis (the Chinese arbor vitae). The B. aurea is a pretty, 
dense, and beautifully compact little shrub, growing not over 
two or three feet high, of an exquisite delicate green in 
winter, and a golden color at the extremities of its branches in 
spring. 
It is perfectly hardy with us, at Fishkill, though forty miles 
above us it does not stand well ; but we have observed that our 
trees, now several years old, though untouched by the cold or 
sun, lose very much the compact pressed appearance so charac- 
teristic of the English plants, and its principal charm we think, 
on this account. In complete collections of evergreens this is 
one of the varieties we should recommend to be grown in pots 
and kept in the house during the winter, although there is no 
doubt of its hardihood here. 
B. pendula. (Weeping arbor vitae).-— A bush or small tree, 
Sy n& growing ten to fifteen feet high, with very long, 
Thuja pendula, slender, pendulous branches: is one of the 
Thuja flliformis. ... 
greatest acquisitions to our perfectly hardy 
trees. Our largest specimen, eight to ten feet, has survived 
our coldest winters and hottest summers for ten or twelve 
years, without the slightest protection. Nothing can well be 
prettier or more graceful than this charming little tree. We 
do not know why this should not be hardy in our most northern 
States, though, we understand, it is sometimes killed near 
Philadelphia ; yet near Boston, and at Washington, it does as 
well as here. It was at one time supposed to be a hybrid be- 
tween the Common Bed cedar and an arbor vitae, and to 
have originated in a nursery in England ; but Dr. Siebold hav- 
ing discovered the plant wild in China, finally decided the 
question. 
