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Our own plants have only been out one year, but seem to 
succeed perfectly well. We have returns from a good many 
parts of the country where it has not been left out all winter, 
and also from Mr. Reid, at Elizabethtown, where it was, and 
who has a specimen four to five feet, perfectly hardy. He 
thinks, in time, it may prove as common as a Norway spruce, 
being very rapid in its growth. At Woodlawn, N. J., it stands 
well, the largest specimen being four to five feet. At Rochester, 
it is hardy, and also at Augusta. 
Widdringtonia. The African Cyprus. 
A new, distinct variety of Cyprus, found at Cape of Good 
Hope, and Madagascar, and named after Capt. Widdrington, 
and a variety of which, erroneously called Widdringtonia eri- 
coides, has been imported into this country, and is cultivated 
with some success, doing very well here in the shade, and 
also at Washington and Augusta. We hardly know why it 
comes out to us as a Widdringtonia. In the English collection 
it is called Retinispora ericoides, and in the French, Chamcesy - 
pans ericoid.es ; but, by whatever name it is called, it is a pretty 
heath-like little shrub, resembling somewhat the Irish juniper. 
It is cultivated in Japan (its native country), in pots, and 
called “Nezu,” — (Dwarf.) 
EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS. 
But very little progress has been made in the planting 
of evergreen shrubs. As great as has been the ad- 
vance in trees, especially the coniferous, there has been 
nothing to correspond with it in the introduction of 
evergreen shrubs. With the exception of a few varieties 
of the Berberries — like Japonica, Bealii, Intermedia, 
&c., we do not remember any thing available for this 
